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: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William Clodius Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada Date: 1996/10/24 Message-ID: <326FCA54.167E@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191813678 references: <01bbb6e2$6385d540$23b2fd86@jssmith.csu891.sandia.gov> <326CF7BC.167E@hso.link.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Los Alamos National Lab mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0S (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Date: 1996-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Stanley R. Allen wrote: > > But you should ask them how many C++ vendors there are. > I can think of three -- Microsoft, Borland, and Symantec. > Now think of ten; not so easy. I know it's easier to > think of ten test vendors for C++ products -- C++ programs > need more tests!! > I suggest a visit to Nullstone's list of compiler companies http://www.nullstone.com/htmls/companies/companies.htm It lists Language # Vendors Ada 6 Basic 3 C++ 30 C 50+ Cobol 4 Fortran 77&90 15 Java 2 Lisp 2 Modula 2 1 Pascal 3 PL/1 1 Note the C/C++ vendors may be highly agressive in listing their wares, I know of Fortran, Lisp, and Modula 2 vendors not represented on the list, and some list only their C/C++ compilers and not those for other languages, but I suspect that Ada's are also highly agressive. Note also that different vendors may share different front or back ends. Still I suspect that any reasonable person would agree that the number of Ada vendors is significantly less thatn the number of C++ vendors. -- William B. Clodius Phone: (505)-665-9370 Los Alamos National Laboratory Email: wclodius@lanl.gov Los Alamos, NM 87545