From: mjsilva@my-deja.com
Subject: Interesting Ada article
Date: 2000/10/02
Date: 2000-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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I picked up a copy of COTS Journal at the Embedded Systems Conference
last week and it had an interesting article on a company (producing
video monitoring and security systems) that switched from C to Ada and
reaped the rewards. Their data showed not only that their Ada code
(which took no longer to write, BTW) had fewer errors (1 per 270 SLOC,
vs. 1 per 80 SLOC for C), but that the average bug fix took only 1/12
(!) as long (20 minutes vs. 4 hours). These two figures work out to a
40-fold (!) improvement in bug fixing time/cost. This is certainly an
attention-getting figure, much more so than the lower error rate
alone. Seems like the Ada debug time / SLOC advantage is something
that should be touted more (recognizing of course that other projects
will have different, but presumably not all -that- different, results).
Mike
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2000-10-02 0:00 mjsilva [this message]
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Interesting Ada article Wes Groleau
2000-10-05 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-10-06 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-10-06 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-06 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-10-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
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