Req: Trade studies, Ada v. other languages

Req: Trade studies, Ada v. other languages

[Dennis W. Butler]

I've frequently seen references to "the FAA" study or the "SEI follow on
study," both of which compare Ada to other programming languages. I
would like to see the full report on these studies, but can't seem to
find them. I looked at SEI's on-line archive of reports, but couldn't
find the right one. I don't know where to start looking for the FAA
study; I suspect it was done under some contract (IBM's? some other
support contractor?).

If anyone knows where I can get these (or other studies conducted in
some rigorous (more or less) way), I'd appreciate hearing about it.

Dennis Butler
Computer Science Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Re: Req: Trade studies, Ada v. other languages

[James S. Rogers]

A very complete report is:
                 Comparing Development Costs of
                                C and Ada

                            March 30, 1995

                     Stephen F. Zeigler, Ph.D.

                  Rational Software Corporation

The URL for this report is:

http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/docs/reports/cada/cada_art.html

Jim Rogers
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Team Ada