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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: rlk@pelton (Bob Kitzberger) Subject: Re: Ada is 'better' than C because... Date: 1996/08/07 Message-ID: <4u910d$16p@rational.rational.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 172642135 references: <01bb7bf9$b89a1740$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <4tj43k$16r@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3205F296.41C6@wgs.estec.esa.nl> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c organization: Rational Software Corporation newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-08-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Sandy McPherson (sandy@wgs.estec.esa.nl) wrote: : To get an objective view of whether one language is better than the : other, one has to evaluate statistics on error densities in comparable : systems written in the protagonist languages. Most people who have done : this come to this conclusion: the choice of programming language only : counts if the choice is between assembler and something else; and for : most mainstream higher languages the process of software development is : the determining factor. We develop systems in Ada, C, and C++. For years, defect rates were measured for these (comparable) systems, and C did not fare well at all compared to Ada. We sell development environments for these three languages, so we have no particular axe to grind. Check our WWW page for the article. -- Bob Kitzberger Rational Software Corporation rlk@rational.com http://www.rational.com http://www.rational.com/pst/products/testmate.html