From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
Date: 1999-09-28T15:16:14-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7sr7me$11v@dfw-ixnews19.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7sqi8p$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu
In article <7sqi8p$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) wrote:
>It's not a big thing. Occasionally you have to fit a program in a small
>space, like on a boot floppy. And it doesn't look good to have a small
>game - which could probably fit in under 4k with a brilliant enough
programmer
>- to be 3/4 of a megabyte.
1) Ada is not at its best when designing code for little programs.
It is definitely advantageous when creating large-scale software
that involves a team of programmers. C++, used correctly, also
fits into that category.
2) Most Ada compilers create a program that includes a set of
instructions that act as a "run time environment." The RTE
supports a lot of execution time checking that is not typical
of languages without an RTE. You can optimize away a lot of]
this code.
3) GNAT has a version called GNORT which has no RTE. This will
produce smaller code, but then you must include all the checking
through selection operations within your code. Sometimes this
is a good idea. Sometimes it is not.
4) Toy programs are never an acceptable medium for measuring or
comparing programming languages or even development methods. If
you decide to create a small program using object-oriented
programming, I will build it just as fast and just as well using
ad hoc methods. However, if we scale up the problem to a serious
application, you will win in both understandability, maintainability,
and completion of the job. I, however, will win the prize for
consumption of over-the-counter anodyne products.
Richard Riehle
http://www.adaworks.com
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-27 0:00 Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses the middleman
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-27 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` the middleman
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? was " Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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[not found] ` <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
1999-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? Robert I. Eachus
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[not found] ` <5OkO3.2$1e.659@typhoon.nyu.edu>
1999-10-19 0:00 ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` GNAT listing file default names (was: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Pragma (was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.) Preben Randhol
1999-09-30 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Ted Dennison
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` p.obry
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle [this message]
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-28 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-27 0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-28 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-29 0:00 ` the middleman
1999-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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