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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1d52a75fd633fefc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-16 13:31:30 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C++ translator? References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:04:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 982357491 24.20.190.201 (Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:04:51 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:04:51 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5312 Date: 2001-02-16T21:04:51+00:00 List-Id: >We have built products in both C and Ada; our data doesn't show a *12-to-1* >difference in debug times! Can you make that data public? It would certainly be much more convincing to see 100 different organizations' data showing everything from .5-to-1 to 12-to-1 with an average of, say, 1.2-to-1. Currently the public data is effectively a censored distribution, with only the "Ada better" outliers mentioned on c.l.a. (and perhaps the "C++ better" outliers mentioned there?). A small N consisting solely of points selected to bolster a case, is never very convincing.