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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 109fba,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: 115aec,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Thread: f43e6,703c4f68db81387d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid109fba,gid115aec,gidf43e6,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!newsprint.newsread.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsmst01a.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!4988f22a!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng References: <4229bad9$0$1019$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1110032222.447846.167060@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <871xau9nlh.fsf@insalien.org> <3SjWd.103128$Vf.3969241@news000.worldonline.dk> <87r7iu85lf.fsf@insalien.org> <87is4598pm.fsf@insalien.org> <1110054476.533590@athnrd02> <1110059861.560004@athnrd02> <422b6d49.1141887367@news.xs4all.nl> <1110830710.027630.241160@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.109.141.191 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1111621900 ST000 69.109.141.191 (Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:51:40 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:51:40 EST Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: TSU[@IONTBWQR]TX\ZIBNFXBWR\HPCTL@XT^OBPLAH[\RWICYFWUQBKZQLYJX\_ITFD_KFVLUN[DOM_A_NSYNWPFWNS[XV\I]PZ@BQ[@CDQDPCL^FKCBIPC@KLGEZEFNMDYMKHRL_YYYGDSSODXYN@[\BK[LVTWI@AXGQCOA_SAH@TPD^\AL\RLGRFWEARBM Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:51:40 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9851 comp.lang.c++:46940 comp.realtime:1646 comp.software-eng:5250 Date: 2005-03-23T23:51:40+00:00 List-Id: "kevin cline" wrote in message news:1110830710.027630.241160@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote: > > > > > Consider a military commmand and control system, a > > complex system with a lot > > of requirementss built in. Now, think of this > > system in terms of its size: 4.5 million > > lines of source code. > > But not all lines of source code are created equally. Written in a > more expressive language the application might be only half that size, > or most likely even less. > Ada is every bit as expressive as C++. There is not likely to be any improvement in the number of KSLOC using C++. Oh, yes, if we choose to use a cryptic form of C++, with all the little shortcuts that make the code less readable, we might achieve some reduction in the KSLOC, but at what cost in understandability? Richard Riehle