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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-18 14:48:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: hfrumblefoot@yahoo.com (Hambut) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: 18 Jul 2001 14:48:38 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com> <9j3rrd$g71$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <5be89e2f.0107181029.1e09f6c0@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.188.142.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 995492919 3499 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2001 21:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:48:39 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10211 Date: 2001-07-18T21:48:39+00:00 List-Id: > > This seems to be suggesting that you feel that there are great > productivity gains in using Ada. Where is the proof that this is > indeed the case? What studies have been done to demonstrate this? > Using Ada is no guarentee that developers won't write crappy, > unmanagable code, and unmaintainable code. > "Comparing Development Costs of C and Ada" at http://www.rational.com/products/whitepapers/337.jsp provides a fairly good study comparing C and Ada. Worth a look. (Aside: It would be great to be able point this type of query at a FAQ. Perhaps even better if it was posted regularly to this newsgroup, people could then find it in a search fairly easily. Does one exist? Would it be sensible to post it regularly? )