From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 11 Nov 92 15:14:54 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu! hri.com!noc.near.net!mv!world!srctran@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Who uses Ada?? Message-ID: List-Id: >> 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 -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178