C++ as official Ada replacement

C++ as official Ada replacement

[byrne]

I recently received the following message.  I'm wondering were the C++ mandate
is coming from.  I had not heard of this policy decision.  What document can be
cited for using C++?                                              

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From aero-c!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!IDA.ORG!csed-56.ida.org!rlw Thu Apr 25 12:51:47 PDT 1991
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From: rlw@ida.org (Richard Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
Subject: Tools to aid c++ development
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.165247.17613@IDA.ORG>
Date: 25 Apr 91 16:52:47 GMT
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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!)

So.  We know about most of the compilers, tools, etc. that are heavily
advertised.  But what else is out there?  What do you use, like,
recommend, sell?

Please note that no one involved in this cataloging effort reads this
newsgroup.  (At this benighted place mostly no one reads news at all!)

Please send responses to Audrey Hook (hook@ida.org) 

Thanks.
-- 
--Dick Wexelblat  (rlw@ida.org) 703 845 6601
  Can you accept an out of state sanity check?

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