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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 07:00:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Jerry Coffin wrote:
> Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> 
>>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. :-)
> 
> 
> Which is utterly irrelevant to the original point, which was about
> stating opinions as facts, not about who holds what opinion.

Hey! I did add a smiley! I just thought it was an opinion from a 
reputable source that tied in with the post. :-) :-)


> I am curious though: how do you make a meaningful comparison? If I
> write something that takes only two thousand lines of SQL, it's almost
> certain to take _well_ over that 100 thousand lines of Ada and might
> well be closer to a million.
> 
> To me, using Ada in that situation sounds insane. Richard Reihle might
> think it's the right thing to do, but I'm fairly certain that P.J.
> Plaugar would disagree.

Would I be allowed to use embedded SQL in the Ada code (GNADE)? Or a 
binding to Postgres or MySQL (APQ) or similar (ODBC)?


> I certainly don't have to think very hard to guess at what my boss would say.

Sorry, I don't know your boss.

Cheers

-- Martin