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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e1a91c4d90acda97 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,e1a91c4d90acda97 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-18 14:43:46 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Safety-Critical Systems Developed Using C++ Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:40:48 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3A6770F0.3FCFA150@acm.org> References: <945eeq$vmk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A664EC4.6F679BE0@acm.org> <9471rc$8cj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.ba.e1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 18 Jan 2001 22:42:39 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (WinNT; I) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4188 comp.lang.c++:40489 Date: 2001-01-18T22:42:39+00:00 List-Id: 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++ ?? > > ---- > Sahan Amarasekera > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================