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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public From: Herman Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <369CBBC5.5CBE@telusplanet.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432133888 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369C4F71.72E62F8E@GoAway.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news2.telusplanet.net 916237734 161.184.43.33 (Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:28:54 MDT) Organization: Aerospace Software Ltd. MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: aerosoft@telusplanet.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:28:54 MDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Hi guys, Nobody need be scared of Ada. It is just Pascal by another name, usually used with an overpriced development system, although the FSF has a perfectly good Ada95 compiler too which can even run on a PC under DOS (no need for Rational tools on Sun's...) Once you have translated the following French terms to Swiss terms: method = procedure object = structure specification = header tower = make file and realized that even Ada has a goto statement, the mystique surrounding Ada disappears! Cheers, Herman Corvus wrote: > > well...I prefer C++ as it's easily maintainable and has more followers > than Ada...Actually...now that I think of it, Ada would be O.k too...if > you need programmers you can always check out military installations... > > Leszek Sczaniecki wrote: > > > > We are about to start a big project, something about 250k lines of code. > > We are going to stick to it for next several years. We would like to > > make an educated choice for the underlying language. This language > > should > > - support object oriented programming > > - support parallel programming > > - lead to easily maintainable code > > - promote safe programming techniques > > - have significant support from commercial vendors (compilers, GUI > > design, testing sw) > > - be available for popular processors (such as 68xxx, PowerPC, etc.) > > - enjoy wealth of existing solutions > > - support "almost real time" execution > > - be suitable for design of embedded systems > > - have existing support for vxworks > > > > There is a legacy code written in Ada and our customer would prefer Ada > > 95. However, we became seriously concerned that there is not sufficient > > support for Ada in the commercial world. Given, that we will be stuck > > with our project for the next several years we would like to choose > > something that still will have adequate support few years down the road. > > Given all that we decided to check C++ and Java. I would appreciate > > greatly any comparisons, comments, hints, pointers to electronic and > > hard copy sources, warnings about traps and pitfalls, etc. that would > > help us thoroughly justify the language choice to our customer. > > > > -leszek > > > > PS > > If you are afraid that your response may start a religious war or that > > it is not of interest of your newsgroup please send me e-mail. > > -- > This is my .SIG file. Enjoy.