Please Contact: Art Stewart (617) 641-1225 E-mail: ArtStewart@aol.com COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ADA The Standardized Development Language ROBERT MATHIS, PH.D., A R A Executive Director ~2 H o w do you compare Ada and C/C++? A d a is a standardized p r o g r a m m i n g language. So is C b u t C++ is n o t yet standardized. There is general agreement a b o u t the central part of the C language, b u t existing compilers have differences. Predicting the compromises that might be necessary to standardize the language is risky. C++ compilers wiLl run C code, which means that the software is p u r p o r t e d to be written in C++ with the assumption of object oriented software engineering. This is n o t necessarily true. The A d a c o m m u n i t y recently u p d a t e d the international standard from Ada83 to Ada95. The u p d a t e is closer to the original A d a than C++ is to C. Ada83 already h a d m o
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