Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I saw a LOL line on another conversation.
>     > > Having used Ada and C++ extensively,
>     > > I'll take Ada over C++ any day.
>     > Never having used Ada at all, I'll take Ada over C++.

  Ada may be a wonderful language, but its lack of recent popularity
means that the amount of available libraries is probably quite small.
No matter how wonderful a language is, having to reinvent wheels with
it is a major letdown.

  If I had to choose a language other than C++, I'll probably choose Java
because of the amount of libraries and portability, or C# because it
sounds a bit better than Java. (Or if efficiency is not an issue, maybe
I would just go with PHP.)

> It really is amazingly well thought out as a language. Plus they've 
> added generics

  I thought templates are evil? ;)

  It still makes be laugh out loud to remember how Java advocates
fiercely attacked C++ templates. Then, some years later, they added
some crippled template mechanism to Java (which still doesn't solve
all the issues).

> I thought that was the idea behind Vista? Most of it rewritten to .NET?

  Ah, now I understand why it's so large, heavy and slow.

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                                                          - Warp

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