From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Xref: utzoo comp.lang.ada:5859 comp.lang.c++:14393 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!odi!dlw From: dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: c++ vs ada results Message-ID: <1991Jun26.221313.5872@odi.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 22:13:13 GMT References: <1991Jun18.041751.3740@netcom.COM> <1991Jun18.122812.18190@eua.ericsson.se> <1991Jun18.220609.19103@netcom.COM> <1991Jun19.170047.25064@software.org> <1991Jun20.140836.24430@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <1991Jun20.220947.23970@sctc.com> Reply-To: dlw@odi.com Organization: Object Design, Inc. In-Reply-To: stachour@sctc.com's message of Thu, 20 Jun 1991 22:09:47 GMT List-Id: In article <1991Jun20.220947.23970@sctc.com> stachour@sctc.com (Paul Stachour) writes: Thus, in practice (as opposed to theory) the answer to your question is: "No, it can't be done in 'just any language', but it can be done in Ada." However, anecdotal data such as "We did some projects, and we did them in Ada, and they went very well" does not provide experimental evidence that those same projects would have gone significantly less well had they been done in some other language, with everything else being equal. It's very difficult, in general, to produce real evidence that would help to significantly support or deny claims about how choice of language affects the course of a software project, mainly because it's so hard to assure that all else is equal, and because it would be so expensive.