From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Jerry Coffin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: 8 Mar 2005 00:02:04 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1110266099.441421.179290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <87is4598pm.fsf@insalien.org> <1110054476.533590@athnrd02> <1110059861.560004@athnrd02> <422b6d49.1141887367@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.33.25.135 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1110268929 10177 127.0.0.1 (8 Mar 2005 08:02:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:02:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.33.25.135; posting-account=mZiOqwwAAAC5YZsJDHJLeReHGPXV5ENp Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8843 comp.lang.c++:44569 comp.realtime:1055 comp.software-eng:4604 Date: 2005-03-08T00:02:04-08:00 List-Id: adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: [ ... ] > However, we must select the right tool for the > right job. There are problems > where Haskell would be preferred to Ada. > Large-scale, safety-critical software > systems developed by a team of programmers is not > the domain where I would > choose Haskell, or ML, or Scheme, or Lisp, or most > other functional languages. Here, at least you're being real: you admit that this is what you would choose. [ ... ] > In fact, > any software system over a half-million lines of > source code should be coded in > Ada. Here, however, you lose your grip on reality. This is NOT "in fact" -- it's purely an OPINION! It's certainly possible to find projects that would involve more than a half-million lines of code for which Ada would be _extremely_ poorly suited, at best. > Some authors have set that threshold at 100 KSLOC. Other authors have set Pi to 3 (exactly). Clearly "some authors" can be quoted as saying just about anything you want, no matter how stupid it might be. > If you have a small, 20 KSLOC software system, go > ahead and use a different > language. Just keep in mind that as that > software grows over time, you might > find yourself wishing you had chosen Ada in the > first place. This is true -- but remains at least equally so if you exchange "Ada" and "some other language"! -- Later, Jerry. The universe is a figment of its own imagination.