Re: c++ vs ada results

[chuck@brain.UUCP (Chuck Shotton)]

In article <1991Jun26.221313.5872@odi.com>, dlw@odi.com (Dan Weinreb) writes:
> However, anecdotal data such as "We did some projects, and we did them
> in Ada, and they went very well" does not provide experimental
> evidence that those same projects would have gone significantly less
> well had they been done in some other language, with everything else
> being equal.
> 
> 
Likewise, yours is not an argument for doing the projects in a language other
than Ada.

> It's very difficult, in general, to produce real evidence that would
> help to significantly support or deny claims about how choice of
> language affects the course of a software project, mainly because it's
> so hard to assure that all else is equal, and because it would be so
> expensive.

I can give you plenty of "evidence" relating the difference between a C project
and Ada project, both of which addressed the same problem space, resulted
in similar solutions, and were staffed by similar numbers of experienced people. I can
tell you from first hand experience that in every measure, the Ada task outperformed
the C task. If you'd like more details, please reply in e-mail, as this topic
has veered far astray from comp.lang.ada.

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