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

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Maciej Sobczak" <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> Your examples are related to GNAT
>
>Which happens to be The Ada Compiler that potential users are going to use.

A compiler that was purposely designed to be as much like C++ as possible, 
thus including all of it's problems as well. GNAT doesn't even try to take 
advantage of many Ada capabilities, because it is so closely tied too GCC.

If you're comparing *languages* rather than *implementations*, the results 
would be rather different.

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>And yet, after so many posts were written in this discussion, I still do 
>not
>see any convincing example of why Ada is sooooo much better in this
>regard. On the other hand, I have presented examples showing that
>C++ problems exist in Ada, too.

Mainly because you're focused on a issue that is OBE. "Compile-time 
coupling" mattered a lot when compilations took five minutes per unit; 
recompilation of an entire system literally took days. Nowdays, when 
compilation only takes a couple of seconds for most units, recompiling an 
entire system takes 10-15 minutes. Since good health requires walking away 
from your desk periodically, a language that didn't require this sometimes 
would be bad for the health of it's practitioners. ;-)

                                               Randy.