Re: Reasons for dropping Ada

[schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)]

In article <19409@grebyn.com> ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
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>...  My personal experience with Ada has been in connection
>with my work as a systems consultant with SofTech/EER of Vienna, Va. and
>involved writing Ada/C and Ada/4GL interfaces, typically 300 or fewer lines
>of code, and then watching Ada compilers take 30 minutes to compile those
>little programs into 400K executables. ... 
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Ted -

If you think that the above numbers are typical of Ada, you are much mistaken.
If they are an exageration that you are using to make a point, it isn't very
credible, and using such exagerations totally buries any valid points you
might have.  For what it's worth, last summer I wrote a 1000+ lines of code
Ada program in about 3 weeks.  It compiles in about 2 1/2 minutes and
generates an executable of less than 85K in size (BTW, it does work).  This
was written using the IntegrAda compiler on a 386/20 machine.

Jeff Schweiger

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