Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

In my 10 years of data, we didn't have any specific C++ examples. However,
the kinds of errors that typically happen in C due to weak typing, parameter
passing mechanisms, pointers, array indexes, etc. are also common to C++. In
other words, adding Classes to C doesn't stop C from failing to do compile or
runtime checks for correctness. It is the catching of incorrect code at
compile time that really helps reduce the error rates and save you some
bucks.

As for the productivity numbers? There I wouldn't make such a strong case
just from my data. On could postulate that the additional features of C++
would enhance productivity over C, so it wouldn't be fair to say from my data
alone that Ada would be more productive than C++. (Perhaps someone else has
such a study?)

MDC

Sahan Amarasekera wrote:

> Did they get any data on how Ada compared to C++ ??
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> Sahan Amarasekera
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