Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <326FCA54.167E@lanl.gov> William Clodius <wclodius@lanl.gov> writes:

 >  I suggest a visit to Nullstone's list of compiler companies

 >  http://www.nullstone.com/htmls/companies/companies.htm

 >  It lists

 > Language	# Vendors
 > Ada 		6
 > Basic		3
 > C++ 		30
 > C		50+
 > Cobol		4
 > Fortran 77&90	15
 > Java		2
 > Lisp		2
 > Modula 2	1
 > Pascal		3
 > PL/1		1

 > Note the C/C++ vendors may be highly agressive in listing their wares, I
 > know of Fortran, Lisp, and Modula 2 vendors not represented on the list,
 > and some list only their C/C++ compilers and not those for other
 > languages, but I suspect that Ada's are also highly agressive.

  And COBOL vendors must be noticably unwilling to list the fact that
they produce COBOL compilers as well as fourth gen tools.

 > Note also that different vendors may share different front or back ends.

 > Still I suspect that any reasonable person would agree that the number
 > of Ada vendors is significantly less thatn the number of C++ vendors.

  No, a reasonable person would conclude that the number of Ada
dialects is much lower than the number of C++ dialects.  I often see
platforms for which I have my choice of Ada vendors, but at most one
C++ compiler available.  (Of course, that may have to do with the part
of the industry I live in.  The situation is reversed on the Mac.)

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					Robert I. Eachus

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