* Re: Language Comparsion (Ada and Java)
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@ 1997-09-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Matthew Heaney @ 1997-09-05 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <5ukpv3$ih7$1@gte2.gte.net>, Marla Brown <marlab@gte.net> wrote:
>Can anyone help me? I writing a paper comparing Ada and Java and I
>need aa metric to compare the languages. Do anyone know of any metrics
>besides Steelman? If so, where can I find it.
The most recent issue of Ada letters had such a comparison, by David Wheeler.
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1997-09-05 0:00 ` Language Comparsion (Ada and Java) Matthew Heaney
@ 1997-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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From: Robert Dewar @ 1997-09-07 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
<<Can anyone help me? I writing a paper comparing Ada and Java and I
need aa metric to compare the languages. Do anyone know of any metrics
besides Steelman? If so, where can I find it.>>
Steelman is not a metric, it is a requirements document. Yes, you could
use it as a basis of a metric (e.g. what percentage of Steelman requirements
are met by a language), but I am not sure how meaningful that would be.
On the other hand, the idea of using quantitative metrics to compare two
programming languages turns out to be a bit bogus in the first place (never
mind, doing bogus things is often instructive in this context :-)
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