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From: stanley@West.Sun.COM (Stanley Friesen [Contractor])
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/02/08
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Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <36BC74B9.5A8@cs.umd.edu>, Michael Stark  <mstark@cs.umd.edu> wrote:
>Stephen Leake wrote:
>SEL on what they thought the future held, but did not consult with
>technical people
>advocating Ada (like me) and I presume the same held for the C++
>zealots.  I think
>he thought that neither group of zealots would add anything new to the
>decision making
>process.  The drawback was that he had some misconceptions (severe
>underestimates) on
>how much it would cost to convert existing Ada software to C++.
>
Eh!?!?  Convert existing software???

I would hope even most "C++ zealots" would admit how expensive this
is likely to be.  I know enough of both languages to know how much
trouble this is likely to cause.