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-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:58:09 -0500 Organization: Ain't no organization here! Message-ID: <3ajqc1F6c0lr3U1@individual.net> References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <1110052142.832650@athnrd02> <1110284070.410136.205090@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <395uqaF5rhu2mU1@individual.net> <1111607633.301232.62490@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1111628011.160315.134740@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1111732101.995662.309040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 6BtdF1iQv109x/hILblS2Q0iw9QmO+ol/Ls17mhml2GlvzcUX4 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1111732101.995662.309040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10005 comp.lang.c++:47302 comp.realtime:1729 comp.software-eng:5345 Date: 2005-03-25T19:58:09-05:00 List-Id: Jerry Coffin wrote: > The real measure is not the long term cost of a particular program, but > the long-term cost of carrying out a particular task. Unfortunately, > that's generally much more difficult to measure, and (worse) attempts > at measuring it are much less common. Indeed. There have been a few times that someone has actually had an Ada group and a group with another language tackle the same requirements. This has not happened enough times for a clear verdict. However, I can state that in AKK the (few) cases I am aware of, Ada was the winner each time. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/Wes