From: jstern@... (Josh Stern)
Date: 2001-01-20T17:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9588] Re: 101 Misconceptions About Dynamic Languages

Comparison of Ada and C++ is off-topic now,
so I'll just mention factual issues.

Larry J. Elmore <ljelmore@home.com> wrote:

>I think of C mostly as a very high-level
>portable assembler, but unfortunately it also forces a number of
>assumptions about the environment that are difficult to escape. There's
>a project somewhere to design a true VHL portable assembler without the
>drawbacks of C, but I've lost the link and can't remember it.

C-- is being worked on as a portable intermediate language
that could interface with compiler back ends.  But I'm
sure there are other, similar projects.

>One thing I particularly like about Ada95 over C++ is the way exception
>handling is done. In Ada it's built-in, the only code you have to write
>is the exception handler itself. If a block of code doesn't have an
>exception handler for a given exception, it's handed up to the next
>higher block of code until a handler is found. The default top-level
>handlers will terminate the program and spit out an error message, of
>course.  

That is the way exceptions work in C++.  


-= Josh