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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: C++ and waitresses (long)
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Date: 25 May 91 07:21:02 GMT
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>] I'd be the last person in the world to defend C++, but I'm going to
>] do it now... What keeps your project from adopting a standard that

>] To be fair (I can't believe I'm doing this), I think Stroustrup did
>] a remarkable job considering he needed to maintain compatibility with
>] C. Of course, that means the putty shows pretty badly in the places

>   There is only one conclusion to draw from Jim's comments:
>   Jim Showalter has become a pod person...

ARGHH!! Actually, I got off to a bad start earlier in this and a few other
groups because I wound up coming off like a zealot and a bigot when I'm not.
I don't damn C++ out of hand, and I certainly feel it is a preferable
alternative to C if that's the only alternative available. There are features
in C++ (and Eiffel, and others) I want to see migrated into Ada. On the
other hand, I still regard Ada as the best choice for engineering
large complex systems if that choice is available to you, and I have the
success stories and experience to substantiate that claim. I think Ada
has been shortchanged because people have this innate belief that anything
coming out of the DoD can't be any good, and it's sad because the reality
is that it IS good, it DOES work, and, besides, the DoD didn't have all
that much to do with the language besides providing the funds--it was
really dreamed up by a handful of clever Frenchmen and reviewed by literally
thousands of experts.
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