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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!ted From: ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada vs C++, Franz Lisp to the rescue? Message-ID: <1991May30.022300.15304@grebyn.com> Date: 30 May 91 02:23:00 GMT References: <9105211321.AA05681@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> Organization: Grebyn Timesharing List-Id: In article <9105211321.AA05681@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> SAHARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU writes: >Vendors are expected to overstate the worth >of their product, the legal term is "puffing", >BUT are we missing something by not discussing >Franz Lisp in the same context as C++ when >discussing the "vs Ada" language issue? >sam harbaugh saharbaugh@ROO.FIT.EDU You're not missing much. Franz Lisp does not include the low-level power and flexibility of C/C++, the immediate handles into every kind of UNIX functionality, the immediate applicability of every new development in the industry... A lot of the discussion revolves around the phrase "reusability of code". The best book available on the topic is the Programmer's Connection catalog, the most major catalog for programmer/developer/designer tools in the mini/micro world. You'll find about a fifth to a half a column's worth of aftermarket stuff available for each of the other languages, and several whole pages for C, such is the dominance of C/C++ in America's market at present. Future medium-large systems will be parallel machines made from these same microchips, and will be programmed with similar software. C++ is the best compromise available for the next ten years or so. LISP may or may not be a better language if you could confine yourself to one platform and one class of programs to write forever, but life isn't like that. Ted Holden HTE