[cpp-threads] meta-question about Ada

[jimmaureenrogers at att.net]

-------------- Original message from "Boehm, Hans" <hans.boehm at hp.com>: -------------- 


> Just to be clear. I wasn't implying that C syntax is a technical 
> requirement for a good systems programming language. It does seem to be 
> a marketing requirement, however. 

I understood that. 
I have seen many people claim that C syntax is important to marketing.
The Ada example may be a very good example of that point.

I have seen people new to Ada complain about the lack of familiar
arithmetic operators such as ++ and +=. It appears unlikely that
Ada will ever add those operators.

> 
> Hans 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: jimmaureenrogers at att.net 
> > 3) It doesn't use C syntax. 
> > 
> 
> Ada is a member of the Algol / Pascal syntax family. 
> The choice of syntax family was intentional. There were good 
> software engineering arguments for the choice. Those arguments 
> are not impressive to people who only want to work in variants 
> of the One True Syntax. :) 
> 
> I find that good C programmers can learn Ada very quickly. 
> My data for that assertion comes from teaching Ada to C programmers, 
> as well as my own experience learning Ada after several years of C 
> programming. 
> 


--
Jim Rogers 
Colorado Springs, Colorado 
U.S.A.
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