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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, FREEMAIL_REPLY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 14:43:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: codesavvy@aol.com (codesavvy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: 19 Jul 2001 14:43:53 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5be89e2f.0107191343.61bd9b5a@posting.google.com> References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com> <9j3rrd$g71$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <5be89e2f.0107181029.1e09f6c0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.59.170.85 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 995579034 9335 127.0.0.1 (19 Jul 2001 21:43:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jul 2001 21:43:54 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10282 Date: 2001-07-19T21:43:54+00:00 List-Id: Good except that it doesn't compare C++ and Ada 95. I think it's fair to say that this would be a better comparison. I appreciate the link you provided though. hfrumblefoot@yahoo.com (Hambut) wrote in message news:... > > > > This seems to be suggesting that you feel that there are great > > productivity gains in using Ada. Where is the proof that this is > > indeed the case? What studies have been done to demonstrate this? > > Using Ada is no guarentee that developers won't write crappy, > > unmanagable code, and unmaintainable code. > > > > "Comparing Development Costs of C and Ada" at > http://www.rational.com/products/whitepapers/337.jsp provides a fairly > good study comparing C and Ada. Worth a look. > > (Aside: It would be great to be able point this type of query at a > FAQ. Perhaps even better if it was posted regularly to this > newsgroup, people could then find it in a search fairly easily. Does > one exist? Would it be sensible to post it regularly? )