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From: tom@hprmokg.HP.COM (Thomas Vachuska)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re: C++ vs Ada / how to name kittens
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Date: 21 Nov 88 17:02:13 GMT
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Ted, 

you talk (write) too much and you say too little. What is worse, you say that
you do not know what you are talking about.  You obviously do not know much
about Ada, for you would not write such non-sense about Ada trying to be an
OS or a 30 line Ada program taking 27 minutes to compile.  Perhaps 27 seconds
would be more appropriate and even then the program would probably have to
contain at least one generic unit that consists of several hundred lines of 
code.  Or then again there is an alternative that you were using a crummy Ada
compiler, if you ever used one at all.  I'm not putting C++ down at all, but 
for medium-large to large projects I would definitely prefer Ada.


Thomas Vachuska

P.S.:  Why don't you read the Steelman, and then talk.  And also remember that
	   compiler technology did not stop getting better.