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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-02 11:12:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD18171.1769847D@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? References: <4519e058.0204290722.2189008@posting.google.com> <3CCE8523.6F2E721C@earthlink.net> <3CCEB246.9090009@worldnet.att.net> <3CCFFB7F.B8080F7A@despammed.com> <3CD1608B.A6336379@despammed.com> <3CD176D5.31892591@otelco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 13:12:01 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020363153 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 02 May 2002 13:12:33 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 13:12:33 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23436 Date: 2002-05-02T13:12:01-05:00 List-Id: > > I wish I knew how to find the Ada/Fortran comparison. > > It was in the 1980s, and some company decided to give > > the same requirements to two teams, one to use Ada > > and one to use Fortran. > > > Wes - It may have been SAIC. We converted a pilot training simulator from > assembly language to Fortran 77. The company funded an R&D project to convert > the Fortran to Ada. It was quite successful, and found some errors in the > Fortran. I didn't ever see a report on the results but I'm sure there was one. Of course my memory could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the article said that they gave each team the same requirements to create (not convert) some project, in order to determine the advantages/disadvantages of Ada vs. Fortran. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau