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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: <4geuge$n56@qualcomm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140385564 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4 organization: QUalcomm Inc. reply-to: x!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!usenet newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >From "Improving software economics in the aerospace and defense industry: A technical paper by Mike Devlin, Chairman and Walker Royce, director of software-engineering process. Rational corp. 1995. "The definition of the Ada language is unique in that it was designed to enable better management, design, and architectural control -- the higher-leverage aspects of software engineering -- while sacrificing some ease of programming. This is the essence of the Ada culture: top-down control where programmers are subordinates of the lead architects and managers. Other languages -- specifically C++ -- focus on simplifying the programming activities while sacrificing some of the ease of control. This, of course, is the essence of the C/C++ culture where programmers lead the way. For small programs and noncritical projects, the C++ culture can work well, and the Ada culture is perhaps overkill. For large, complex, mission-critical systems, though, the Ada culture is a field-proven necessity for success. Culture is a set of trends imposed by humans. Clearly, an Ada culture can be practiced by C++ and vice versa, but the paradigm shift for an organization with cultural inertia is an emotional and extremely difficult undertaking" Nasser.