From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: duggar@mit.edu (Keith H Duggar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: 16 Aug 2004 23:28:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.157.200.142 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1092724120 18446 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2004 06:28:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 06:28:40 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2766 Date: 2004-08-16T23:28:34-07:00 List-Id: Ed, > That said, you would be hard-pressed to find significant > performance differences from C++ in areas where they > overlap. Indeed, I was having a little trouble seeing how they could differ greatly in speed. It seems to me that Ada and C++ share a lot of "performance" related features such as static typing, "access" types, and generics. So it seems entirely reasonable that they are comparable in performance. Also, I could even believe that the more restricted "access" types vs pointers and built-in support for concurrency rather than library based concurrency could actually give Ada an edge in certain areas. > (There are a number of language-defined capabilities > in Ada that are addressed by libraries in C++, or which fall > outside the standard of the latter - and less so, vice-versa). If you have the time, could you give me some examples of these? In particular, examples of C++ capabilities that aren't built-in to Ada would help me to get a better feel for Ada in relation to what I already know and use (C++). Thank you for the help, Keith