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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:52:13 +0000 (UTC)
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Jerry Coffin wrote:
>>In fact,
>>any software system over a half-million lines of
>>source code should be coded in
>>Ada.
> 
> Here, however, you lose your grip on reality. This is NOT "in fact" --
> it's purely an OPINION! It's certainly possible to find projects that
> would involve more than a half-million lines of code for which Ada
> would be _extremely_ poorly suited, at best.

It's an opinion /nearly/ shared with P. J. Plauger of the ANSI-C 
committee (and Dinkumware) - only I believe he quoted 100 thousand lines 
as the point at which you should be using Ada. :-)

Cheers

-- Martin