From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli)
Subject: Re: A farewell to Ada
Date: 22 Nov 89 13:10:08 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145@cernvax.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 14040@grebyn.com
>From: mlewis: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
>
>>"...the use of Ada resulted in a 12% increase in productivity over
>>assembly language and 27% over C." (That is the single most concise
>>condemnation of C I have ever seen... :-)
>
Could somebody explain me those numbers ? How it comes that Ada is 12%
more productive than assembly and 27% more than C ?
This would mean that assembly is more productive than C ? This seems to me
ridicolously wrong (assembly vs C productivity, I don't have facts to
talk about Ada).
Thanks,
Achille Petrilli
Cray & PWS Operations
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1989-11-21 20:11 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-22 13:10 ` achille petrilli [this message]
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1989-11-22 5:21 Michael Hunter
1989-11-19 3:33 Ted Holden
1989-11-22 15:07 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-14 21:24 Ted Holden
1989-11-14 22:54 ` schmidt
1989-11-15 18:55 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-17 17:19 ` Michael Schwartz
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