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Subject: Re: ada-c++ productivity
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In article <1991Mar17.142756.25676@ecst.csuchico.edu> rreid@ecst.csuchico.edu
(Ralph Reid III) writes:
>I don't know where these companies are digging up these kind of
>unproductive machine operators (I hesitate to call them real
>programmers), but they would never get through the computer science
>program here at Chico State.  It kind of makes me wonder what schools
>...

PLEASE keep in mind that when we talk about LOC productivity in the
Real World, it is averaged over the entire software lifecycle, including
requirements analysis.  The actual time spent coding may be as little as
20% of the lifecycle.  And obviously during that coding period, the
programmers are writing a lot more than 10 LOC/day.  There is substantial
evidence (eg, the SoftCost database from RCI) showing that Ada programmers
become more productive than other languages.  I would contend that this
would hold true for C++ as well on a large project (I've used both 
extensively).


Richard Simonian
Harris Space Systems Corp.  407-633-3800
simonian@x102c.ess.harris.com
rsimonian@nasamail.nasa.gov