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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
Subject: Re: "Ada and C++", from comp.software-eng
Date: 9 May 91 06:01:49 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1991May9.060149.1718@netcom.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ENAG.91Apr29213154@maud.ifi.uio.no

>Jim, I suggest you relax a bit.

You'll note I posted an apology for my zeal.

>Last time
>I heard, central telephone switching gear (the size of 5ESS) is coded
>in C++.  After all, this _is_ AT&T...

Actually, the 5ESS is still written in C. They tried to migrate to C++,
but ran into all sorts of problems (paradigm shift, tool maturity,
infrastructure, etc). [Not that this is a phenomenon limited to C++:
I can think of some Ada failures too...especially early in Ada's
history.]

  reply	other threads:[~1991-05-09  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1991-04-25 18:16 "Ada and C++", from comp.software-eng Richard Pattis
1991-04-26 20:28 ` Jim Showalter
1991-04-29 19:32   ` Erik Naggum
1991-05-09  6:01     ` Jim Showalter [this message]
1991-05-11 21:40     ` Erik Naggum
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1991-04-30 13:56 abdlm
1991-04-30 16:53 ` Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
1991-05-02 15:49 ` barriost
1991-05-09  6:10   ` Jim Showalter
1991-05-09 16:19     ` Harry Koehnemann
1991-05-06 21:56 ` Ronald T. Crocker
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