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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: mbk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Matthew B. Kennel) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/26 Message-ID: <4gspbo$rjm@gaia.ns.utk.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141241411 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4 <4geuge$n56@qualcomm.com> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville reply-to: kennel@msr.epm.ornl.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Nasser Abbasi (nabbasi@qualcomm.com) wrote: : 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. Would somebody from Rational care to explain what aspects of C++ they believe simplify the programming activity compared to Ada? : Nasser.