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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141103834 references: <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com>> organization: AT&T Research, Murray Hill NJ newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > "I'm certainly not qualified to parttake in this fla^H^H^Hheated debate > about Ada vs. C++ -- however, I believe Booch (in "Object oriented > analysis and design") cites an example program that shrunk 90% when > recoded into C++ from Ada. Question is, is this typical? And if so, > is it easier to read/maintain 100K lines of Ada than 10K lines C++?" It depends on the author, as Prof. Dewar should know -- I would rather maintain his assembly language code than most other people's code in any language at all. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com