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: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: bob@lintilla.demon.co.uk (Bob Cousins) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <369e09ff.3246197@news.supernews.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432281136 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@gxsn X-Trace: 916262265 PU3IS5UMB4A923E88 uk24.supernews.com Organization: GXSN Mime-Version: 1.0 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: In comp.arch.embedded, 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... Well, thank you for starting yet another holy war, it's so much more fun than researching the languages and coming to your own conclusions ;-) I won't comment on the language issues, apart from saying that it does not appear that Java will meet you requirements. Either of Ada or C++ will easily meet your requirements. Really, choice of very similar languages is a small issue, and for a project of this size far more significant factors are project management and the quality of the engineers. If you want to be radical, let the engineers choose both the language and more importantly write the project plan. A good engineer will choose the appropriate langauge and commit to his or her own plan. If you haven't got good engineers, the project will have problems anyway... -- Bob Cousins, Software Engineer. http://www.lintilla.demon.co.uk/ "We demand that we may, or may not, be philosophers!"