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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140395562 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil Z Malde) writes: ... >I'm certainly not qualified to parttake in this fla^H^H^Hheated debate >about Ada vs. C++ -- however, I believe Booch (in "Object oriented >analysis and design") cites an example program that shrunk 90% when >recoded into C++ from Ada. Question is, is this typical? And if so, >is it easier to read/maintain 100K lines of Ada than 10K lines C++? My 2 Pfennig: It would have shrunk to 10 KLOC in all of Ada, C++, Eiffel, Sather, whatever during recoding. Maybe we have some kind of code compressors, but up to now any recode I saw shrunk a lot and was -- even if done by me -- not neccessarily less readable. Dirk -- Dirk Dickmanns -- real-time dynamic computer vision Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Transputers -- embedded Ada 95, Ada 83, OCCAM2/3, ANSI C, Eiffel 3, PROLOG