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From: rlove@neosoft.com (Robert B. Love )
Cc: rriehle@nunic.nu.edu
Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?)
Date: 1996/10/21
Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54gc04$osv@uuneo.neosoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bbb6e2$6385d540$23b2fd86@jssmith.csu891.sandia.gov


In <Pine.GSO.3.95.961020165834.4990E-100000@nunic.nu.edu> Richard 
Riehle wrote:
> I am meeting more and more DoD managers and contractors who, at the
> management level, are concerned with whether Ada has the staying
> power required for them to select it for important projects. While
> many of them agree that Ada is probably superior to C++, that 
superiority
> may prove to be of marginal value when weighed against the 
availability
> of tools for C++, programmers in C++, and the myriad of other 
resources
> for C++.  

Where are the success stories for C++ in large DoD efforts?  Since I 
don't
do C++ I don't see them.  Are there any?  We know of Ada success 
stories.

I'm hearing rumors of a large C++ "national systems" program that is 
failing.
Program is way behind schedule and now the gov't is questioning the 
contractor.
I don't know the cause of the failure or if its recoverable.  But this 
could 
be a C++ failure that should be highlighted.  

We need to stress to these managers that there are Ada success stories.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-10-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-09  0:00 What is Ada used for??? Sean Roehnelt
1996-10-09  0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-09  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-10  0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-10  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-10  0:00 ` Jason Smith
1996-10-10  0:00   ` Robert S. White
1996-10-20  0:00   ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Richard Riehle
1996-10-21  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22  0:00       ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-22  0:00     ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Stanley R. Allen
1996-10-24  0:00       ` William Clodius
1996-10-25  0:00         ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25  0:00           ` jim hopper
1996-10-25  0:00         ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25  0:00           ` John DiCamillo
1996-10-25  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-26  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-27  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-28  0:00           ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31  0:00             ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28  0:00           ` David Emery
1996-10-28  0:00             ` Rush Kester
1996-10-30  0:00               ` Ed Falis
1996-10-30  0:00           ` David Emery
1996-10-28  0:00         ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25  0:00     ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Kazimir Majorinc
1996-10-21  0:00   ` Robert B. Love  [this message]
1996-10-24  0:00     ` Richard Riehle
     [not found] ` <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>
1996-10-09  0:00   ` What is Ada used for??? Michael Feldman
1996-10-21  0:00     ` Jin Xue Kuang
1996-10-15  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-25  0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-26  0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30  0:00 ` Arlene S. Felton
1996-11-04  0:00   ` nasser
     [not found] <01BBBF2B.4CB43CC0@idc213.rb.icl.co.uk>
1996-10-25  0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Robert I. Eachus
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