Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>]

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Chris Powell <chris.powell@rrds.co.uk> a �crit dans le message :
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> Did the coding standard for the safety-critical software developed allow
> full use of Ada 95 constructs? My experience of safety-critical software
> is that while Ada is usually the chosen language, most of the Ada
> language features are disallowed. I worked on one project where
> constrained types were not allowed (because they are more likely to
> raise exceptions than unconstrained types), no packages (because data
> hiding limited testability) and certainly nothing as difficult to test
> as inheritance/polymorphism could be used.
>

No packages, is that a joke ??

This is the most stupid limitation I've ever eard !!!!!

Who could possibly decide to not use packages in an Ada project ?

How can you even design such application ?

You have only procedures and functions ? Where do you put the shared
types ? Don't tell us that you use only predefined types ? Or maybe
your application is just one procedure with everything in it :)

Pascal.

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