Re: "Subtract C, add Ada"

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <D1wKJn.HAu@seas.ucla.edu>,
Jay M. Martin <jaym@breeze.seas.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>Why doesn't he publish his results?  Such data points need to be
>collected in journals even though they may not be overwhelming 
>evidence by themselves.  With enough data points "facts" about
>the efficiency of different methods of software development can
>be derived.  Unfortunately, I have never seen the Computer Science
>community do this .  Jay

Actually, he published it twice. One paper was in TRI-Ada '91, which
got the Best Paper award in that conference; the other was in Communications
of the ACM, in the Ada section of the November 1992 issue.

You really ought to check your facts before making these generalizations.
Maybe _ask_ first whether John published anything on this. He's also
discussed it in numerous panels in both SIGCSE and SIGAda circles.

Mike Feldman
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