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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd7c9,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfd7c9,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jack Rudd Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/12 Message-ID: <3441B496.41C6@lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280006007 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran Date: 1997-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Gary L. Scott wrote: > > Oh the horror stories about Ada just about anyone in the defense > industry could tell you...(inefficiency, bloat, development delays, > budget overruns)...I dare you to fit a Jovial application that already > max's out a computer's capabilities in the same box using OO techniques > in Ada...In fact, multiply memory and CPU throughput by 10 and try it. > You will likely be forced to back off OO quite a bit, making an even > bigger mess of maintainability/reusability... > > Vincent Lambercy wrote: > > > After two weeks, Ada and Smalltalk seems to be the best languages. ... Problems along the above lines helped get a very large defense project cancelled that was near and dear to me. I may never forgive the folks who pushed OO in Ada on that project. Incidentally, the Air Force has now backed off from its previous position of requiring Ada on all new software projects. Jack Rudd Lockheed Martin Federal Systems Boulder, CO