Re: Bye-bye Ada ? (Ada95 Wholesale Changes?)

[Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:14:52 -0500, "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG"
<ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:

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>CURIOUSITY POLL?
>
>I'd be interested if anyone actually uses this type of
>procedure in more "critical" application development roles.
>I am sure that others must take advantage of this, if not
>secretly so? ;-)  Is this type of thing frowned upon by
>DOD projects, or do they even know this type of thing
>happens? Just curious.

I am using this technique for both C++ and Ada, mostly because the
strategy of our firm and our customers is: "very quick and incredibly
dirty". (:-))

It works perfectly in Ada, but has serious problems in C++, especially
with MS VC++, which is unable to recompile as necessary, even if
precompiled hearders are not used (this feature does not work anyway).
It is disastrous because a recompile-all lasts for 4-hours to see how
thousands compile errors appear on the screen. Add here, that during
compilation one cannot edit because of a "perfect" team work of MS IDE
and the operating system, which block the whole system for 10-15 sec
during code generation and linking. The project is large indeed, and
it seems so that we pushed it to the very limit of what could be done
with C++, probably beyond it.

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Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de