From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,1abd8cd3fcda7788 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-04 13:39:54 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!130.59.214.20!news-ge.switch.ch!nntp01.fccn.pt!newshub.ip.pt!newsserver.ip.pt.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Antonio Vargas Subject: Re: Ada versus Eiffel Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Reply-To: antonio.vargas@clix.pt References: <981260226.123061@tubarao.ip.pt> User-Agent: KNode/0.4beta4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Organization: (none given) Message-ID: <981322791.127037@cachalote.ip.pt> Cache-Post-Path: cachalote.ip.pt!unknown@195-23-222-23.nr.ip.pt X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 20:39:37 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.23.135.21 X-Trace: newsserver.ip.pt 981322791 195.23.135.21 (Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:39:51 WET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:39:51 WET Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4926 Date: 2001-02-04T20:39:37+00:00 List-Id: Right now I have found a starting point for the study: http://www.eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/contract/ariane/page.html about the ariane 5 problem :-) from the Eiffel advocates and a contraposition at http://home.flash.net/~kennieg/ariane.html I'm also trying some tipical Ada to Eiffel and Eiffel to Ada code. I suspec that efficiency is a general advantage in Ada but I must test across several Eiffel compiler implementations. It looks like that Eiffel has some advantages beeing used earlier in the analysis and specification of a project (design by contract etc). But I can't make a good evaluation until I get some proficiency in that particular language. I can't make the same mistake of the Ada critics that, in general, dont have a deep understanding of this wonderful language. Ant�nio F. Vargas