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: 103376,6b6619eb9cada212 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Tucker Taft Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Date: 1999/12/21 Message-ID: <385FBEB6.8D34217@averstar.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 563473309 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.burl.averstar.com References: <01bf37fb$a91afb60$0564a8c0@IS-D2D04C.test> <829rbv$a8m$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe> <385112AE.7E2CFA9@rdel.co.uk> <385F6CEA.8DC03C7D@acenet.com.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: AverStar (formerly Intermetrics) Burlington, MA USA Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Geoff Bull wrote: > > Richard Pinkall-Pollei wrote: > > > > Finally, > > repeated studies have confirmed that it costs less to write and > > maintain non-trivial Ada programs. > > References? Here are a couple. The first is a presentation with a number of graphic charts illustrating the savings using Ada relative to other languages: http://www.adaic.org/docs/present/ajpo/pll-cost/html/ There are further references interspersed through this presentation. This second one is a study done by Verdix (now Rational) about their experience using Ada and C in developing compiler components: http://www.rational.com/sitewide/support/whitepapers/dynamic.jtmpl?doc_key=337 -- -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA