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: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Pete Becker Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/14 Message-ID: <369DE6A6.8CD88A4B@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432517674 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: lwnws01.ne.mediaone.net 916317793 24.128.201.83 (Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:43:13 EDT) Organization: Northeast Region--MediaOne MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:43:13 EDT 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: 1999-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 Interesting choice of requirements. Only the last seems at all related to being suitable for the actual task that you are going to perform. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. http://www.dinkumware.com