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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-18 06:22:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.esoc.esa.de!not-for-mail From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:13:14 +0200 Organization: joining a few Message-ID: <3B558B6A.BABB32C2@ACM.org> References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <9j298c$hvq$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> <3B556EDE.18308230@earthlink.net> Reply-To: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org NNTP-Posting-Host: cgloster.esoc.esa.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10152 Date: 2001-07-18T15:13:14+02:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley wrote: "[..] The group I was in at a former employer inherited a system that was written in Ada 83 and it had been dictated that it be fully object-oriented. [..] Still, to be OO, the system _had_ to have inheritance and polymorphism, and by God it did. Through the use of derived types, pointers, type conversions, 'address-es of derived procedures, ad nauseum, this system had all three components of an object oriented system[ eventually added to it]. [..] The only real way out of this mess would've been to rewrite the system. Which we did. And which reduced its SLOC count by a third." So your new final version had a line count of two thirds that of the hacked OO version; or two thirds that of the original given to the team?