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: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Richard Riehle Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Date: 1996/10/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 191924850 references: <01bbb6e2$6385d540$23b2fd86@jssmith.csu891.sandia.gov> <54gc04$osv@uuneo.neosoft.com> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: National University, San Diego mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 21 Oct 1996, Robert B. Love wrote: > Where are the success stories for C++ in large DoD efforts? Since I > don't do C++ I don't see them. Are there any? We know of Ada success > stories. Good question, Robert. First, let me re-affirm, for those who do not know me, that I am a long-standing Ada advocate. The questions raised in my original post were intended to raise some discussion, not to sound a death knell for Ada. If I thought Ada was moribund, you can be certain I would not be doing what I do every day. As to your question, I frequently run into DoD projects that are being developed in C++. And, to my horror, someone recently told me that a missile system I thought was being developed in Ada (originally was being programmed in Ada) is now flying on software coded in C++. Unfortunately, this is a DoD project and I need to be somewhat circumspect in discussing it. So that is all I will say. If someone with more authority than I have wants to talk about it, I would like to see it brought up here. Richard Riehle