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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
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Subject: Re: "Ada and C++", from comp.software-eng
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>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.]