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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/22
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In article <385FBEB6.8D34217@averstar.com>,
  Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
> Geoff Bull wrote:
> > References?
>
> Here are a couple.  The first is a presentation with a number
> of graphic charts illustrating the savings using Ada
> relative to other languages:
>
>     http://www.adaic.org/docs/present/ajpo/pll-cost/html/
>
> There are further references interspersed through this presentation.

I found a single page/slide listing 6, some of which themselves were
compendiums of other studies. Wow.

> This second one is a study done by Verdix (now Rational) about their
> experience using Ada and C in developing compiler components:
>
>
http://www.rational.com/sitewide/support/whitepapers/dynamic.jtmpl?doc_k
ey=337

My favorite line:
 "This graph shows that customers were far more unhappy with features
implemented in C than they were in Ada."

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T.E.D.


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