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Date: 14 Aug 91 18:40:55 GMT
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nrcnet0!bnrgate!scrumpy!bnrmtl%bnr.ca!stevej@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Steve Juneau
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Subject: Re: c++ vs ada results
Message-ID: <1991Aug14.184055.26198@scrumpy@.bnr.ca>
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In article <1991Aug14.144129.6334@software.org>, stluka@software.org (Fred Stlu
ka) writes:
|> In article <1991Aug13.142900.28910@slcs.slb.com> cornish@slcs.slb.com (Darry
l Cornish) writes:
|> > Grady Booch converted the Booch Ada Component Library from ADA to C++.
|> > The result was thaty 150,000 lines of ADA became 20,000 lines of C++. 
|> > 
|> > While smaller is not necessarily better, this does give one cause to
|> > wonder at the logic of people (e.g., the DOD) who make decisions on 
|> > the fact that ADA programmers produced 30% more lines of code / month 
|> > than C++ programmers.
|> 
|> This comparison requires some context.
|> 
|> The Booch parts are a small collection of FAMILIES of related parts.
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes, but that's what you get in a typical application
(in my own experience 4 years of C++) coded using OO principles.

|> ...

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