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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "E. Robert Tisdale" Subject: Re: Ada vs. C++ in defense projects Date: 2000/11/04 Message-ID: <3A0465CD.DAE60D49@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 689687880 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> <39FE461D.275F1363@ix.netcom.com> <8tmt7o$vbj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A02DB88.8A4232D1@lmco.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jeff Stimson wrote: > Most of my career has been based on writing applications in Ada. > That has changed recently > since absolutely no one wants anything other than C++ right now. > I've just ramped up in C++ and am doing projects with it. > I am not new to C since I have also used that for a number of years. > > My God. > Is everyone blind to the inherent dangers in programming with C++? > My last project in Ada (about 20K SLOC) > was delivered to the customer about 8 months ago with no defects. > That's zero, zip, 0, nadda. > We have heard nothing back from them in terms of problems or bugs. > I know for a fact that the current project (approx. same size) in C++ > will not turn out the same. > > I really despair at the disappearance of Ada, and it is going away. > We can fight and scream all we want > but it is not being taught in colleges or universities, > it is not being promoted by companies that have influence, > and it still has a stigma with being 'that military language'. Ada has made you lazy and careless. You can write programs in C that are just as safe by the simple application of super-human diligence.