Am Samstag 22 März 2008 schrieb Luke A. Guest: > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:24 +0100, Martin Krischik wrote: > > Note that the features you mentioned have been available for in - in for > > example Ada - for over ten years (complex numbers ) or 20 years > > (variable length arrays) now - and they have been implemented by the > > compiler vendors. > > > > I mention Ada because this is where good foundation come into play. When > > Ada came out it was dismissed for been to heavy and difficult - while C > > was so light and elegant. > > > > Now 20 years later and see what happened: The Ada front end of GCC 4.3 > > implements Ada 2007 in full - only a year after the standard was > > finalised > > I'm not convinced that's true, in mine and other peoples tests, the > interfaces of Ada 2005 still does not work in Ada. I've yet to test > 4.3.0 but I've been informed that they don't work properly in the > previous beta. Well, there are allways bugs - even in Ada. But at least there is movement and the will and the ability to implement new features. While in C even features like complex numbers which *should* simple to implement stay on the to-do list for years. Martin -- Martin Krischik Mädergutstr. 53 CH-3018 Bern Tel. +41-31-981-22-38 Mobil: +41-76-516-51-02 mailto://Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.krischik.com
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