Re: Non-defense Ada applications - answering several requests

[sampson@cod.nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson)]

In article <C89Crv.5ux@inmet.camb.inmet.com> stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker T
aft) writes:
>In article <SRCTRAN.93Jun3233419@world.std.com> 
>  srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
>
>>Mike,
>>	Each time you post this, I keep on thinking "Yea, well mine's
>>longer".  If I posted a list of similar C/C++ projects, it would be
>>50 times larger for projects with a similar range of sizes. 
>
>Actually, I think it would be doing the public a service if
>someone would publish a similar list, but restrict it to C++.

     I second this request.  When I make public presentations on OO con-
cepts, I always state that we don't have much of a track record on the use
of inheritance and polymorphism in large, critical, systems.  (My point is
to try to rein in some of the premature -- in my opinion -- unbounded en-
thusiasm for these techniques, not a criticism of the techniques them-
selves, which I admit look promising.)  I'm more concerned each time I say
this, expecting to be shot down by some knowledgeable C++ fan in the audi-
ence, but nobody's done it yet.  A list of major C++ projects would be
interesting.

     Of course, there's the usual problem of verifying that a project is
truly C++, not just C being passed through a C++ compiler.

                              Charlie