Re: Who uses Ada??

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>>  Well.. Let's see how good I am at the assertion game.  Anyone who knows
>> anything about software metrics in the real world, knows how faulty a
>> measure of project size and significance the LOC count is.  Cheers, cheers
>> for such a vaccuous observation!!

Cheers, cheers for this parody of a stinging rebuke.  Which observation is
vaccous?  Dr. Feldman's (and other postings on comp.lang.ada) of Ada projects
with LOC count prominently displayed, or my rebuttal with real world measures.

In case it was me, let me generalize:  for all voluntary decisions regarding
the choice of a computer language, any measurable demographic (money spent,
people hired, lines of code, tools used, reusable software used or bought),
for Ada is exceeded by most older languages (Cobol, Fortran), most newer
languages (C/C++), or parity for niche languages (Lisp, Forth, Basic).

And just think, I was about to say something nice about ATT's success with
the use and reuse of its birthed language, C++.

In fact, how about finding out how much C/C++ code that all of ATT has.
I don't think I have ever seen such a summary anywhere.

Greg Aharonian

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