"Ada and C++", from comp.software-eng

[pattis@june.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis)]

FYI

> 
> Article 5666 of comp.software-eng:
> From: rlw@ida.org (Richard Wexelblat)
> Subject: Tools to aid c++ development
> Reply-To: hook@ida.org 
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 91 16:52:47 GMT
> 
> As I am sure you know, the U.S. Department of Defense is hooked on Ada
> and cannot get off.  So it was not a surprise when the Air Force came
> to us and asked us to build for them a catalog of commercially available
> Ada compilers and CASE support tools.  It WAS a surprise when they
> asked us to include c++ compilers and tools, too.  
> 
> Making a long story short, it turns out that c++ is the Lord High
> Substitute for Ada and there is a rather large class of applications for
> which c++ may well turn out to be the preferred substitute.  (I know,
> that class probably includes 100% of the applications, but this is the
> Air force, Mr. Jones!)
> 
>  ...
>
> --Dick Wexelblat  (rlw@ida.org) 703 845 6601
>  Can you accept an out of state sanity check?


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