From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/20 Message-ID: <312A9602.2A7D@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140353889 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Marine Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.01 9000/750) Date: 1996-02-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ketil Z Malde wrote: > > I'm certainly not qualified to parttake in this fla^H^H^Hheated debate > about Ada vs. C++ -- however, I believe Booch (in "Object oriented > analysis and design") cites an example program that shrunk 90% when > recoded into C++ from Ada. Question is, is this typical? And if so, > is it easier to read/maintain 100K lines of Ada than 10K lines C++? I believe that was when it was recoded into Ada (95). If I remember correctly, the size of the Ada 83 version was even longer. Ada (95) has not been around long enough to have any real reliable numbers about how typical this is. -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |