Re: c++ vs ada results

[dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb)]

In article <1991Jun18.220609.19103@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:

   This is an excellent point, and mirrors my own experiences with Ada. I imagine
   similar things are true of Eiffel, Modula-3, and any of the other modern
   software engineering languages. There is nothing WRONG with this, but an
   organization needs to recognize that with increased language complexity comes
   a greatly increased ability for the average programmer to get in trouble.

What he said was that he found that it was very hard to write reusable
code libraries that are very space-efficient, very time-efficient,
usable, and reusable by a wide range of applications.  This is going
to be true no matter what language you write in.  He offered no
evidence that writing such code would have been easier in a language
that traded off less complexity for less ability.  The "increased
language complexity" issue is your point, not his point.

I do agree with your overall point about some people being much more
qualified as architects than others.