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: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: fd7c9,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfd7c9,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280272828 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran Date: 1997-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net>, scottg@flash.net wrote: >Oh the horror stories about Ada just about anyone in the defense >industry could tell you...(inefficiency, bloat, development delays, >budget overruns)...I dare you to fit a Jovial application that already >max's out a computer's capabilities in the same box using OO techniques >in Ada...In fact, multiply memory and CPU throughput by 10 and try it. >You will likely be forced to back off OO quite a bit, making an even >bigger mess of maintainability/reusability... This statement is obviously incorrect, as Ada's OO facilities are actually quite efficient. A type for which inheritance is available - in Ada, a "tagged" type (called a "class" in other languages) - only requires 1 extra memory word to store the tag, and primitive operations (called "methods" in other languages) are bound statically by default. I have been happily programming in Ada for 10 years - by choice - but sorry to say have no "horror stories" to share with you, since my experience in Ada has only been pleasant. It may seem too fantastic to be true :-), but there are actually real Ada "success" stories! Visit the Ada home page for a list, to get a healthy dose of reality. If you'd like to learn Ada, so you can avoid making vacuous comments about a language you know nothing about, you can get a free, high-quality Ada compiler, GNAT, at NYU. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271