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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:44:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:44:59 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40b9c99e$0$268$edfadb0f@dread16.news.tele.dk> <40BB2B98.3010307@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.80 X-Trace: sv3-M42rGFicwhzP8qn72fHVD3jI/pFmMYtSi/GIc9tDqVE0ScaBOlQp3QI+u528aUuAiYsqKZWV/BjcoMr!MJzW+oL5ZlegVviE+4zqy5a64i4IDcH/NnL64kKoZcyqGUS5okcHlhO8QbXKzchGH6kfnrNARImz X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:993 Date: 2004-06-01T09:44:59-05:00 List-Id: Berend de Boer wrote: > There is no absolute, undeniable proof that using Eiffel or Ada does > make this process faster. There is no proof that debugging time is > drastically less. There is no proof that maintainance is lower. There is no "absolute, undeniable proof"--but there IS credible empirical evidence. http://www.adaic.org/whyada/index.html http://www.adaic.org/whyada/ada-vs-c/cada_art.html The latter is not the only such study. But I am not sure where the others are -- Wes Groleau "Lewis's case for the existence of God is fallacious." "You mean like circular reasoning?" "He believes in God. Therefore, he's fallacious."