Re: Teaching C/C++ from Ada perspective?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> > So can you kindly point me to where exactly SEI recommends defining integer range types ...
> 
> Maciej, I'll see your integer range types [...]

I really appreciate the effort that you have put into copying all this text here, but it does not actualy answer my question. The Steelman requirement were intended to drive the design of a new language. It is pointless to use it as a benchmark for languages that were not developed within the same competition.
I was asking about today's coding standards that are published by SEI in relation to C++. You did not refer to them. If they say nothing about integer ranges, then it might also indicate that the very long historical connection that you have drawn has lost its meaning even for them. The coding standards that they publish for C++ do not refer to Steelman, so why do you?

You did not convince me, so I will repeat: integer ranges do not fit well the C++ culture and are not recommended there.

> Btw, Maciej, Steelman requirements are governing any programming language that purports to be a software-in-the-large software-engineering language, C++ included.

No, this is the interpretation that you have made yourself. Even the page that you have linked says:

"the original 1978 requirements document for the Ada computer programming language"

These requirements do not govern anything that they were not intended to. Making such comparison benchmarks is interesting as a historical study, but it is far from "governing" anything. In this limited context, the fact that Ada does not meet the requirements for Ada is more funny than the fact that C++ does not meet them.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com