From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 10 Jun 93 01:08:44 GMT From: sampson@cod.nosc.mil (Charles H. Sampson) Subject: Re: Non-defense Ada applications - answering several requests Message-ID: <1993Jun10.010844.25571@nosc.mil> List-Id: In article stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker T aft) writes: >In article > 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