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From: "Jerry Coffin" <jcoffin@taeus.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 8 Mar 2005 17:48:53 -0800
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Martin Dowie wrote:

[ ... ]

> It's an opinion /nearly/ shared with P. J. Plauger of the ANSI-C
> committee (and Dinkumware) - only I believe he quoted 100 thousand
> lines as the point at which you should be using Ada. :-)

Which is utterly irrelevant to the original point, which was about
stating opinions as facts, not about who holds what opinion.

I am curious though: how do you make a meaningful comparison? If I
write something that takes only two thousand lines of SQL, it's almost
certain to take _well_ over that 100 thousand lines of Ada and might
well be closer to a million.

To me, using Ada in that situation sounds insane. Richard Reihle might
think it's the right thing to do, but I'm fairly certain that P.J.
Plaugar would disagree. I certainly don't have to think very hard to
guess at what my boss would say.

--
    Later,
    Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.