Re: Mixing Ada and C++. Is a good idea?

[mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)]

In article <dewar.880118394@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>Joe says
>
><<It was a nice theory, one that we never did get to work in a project of
>any size, because the inherent cohesiveness of the variables was not all
>that high.  This has been true in all projects past some critical size,
>regardless of language, from the days of assembly on to the present.
>
>Having never gotten such a thing to work in the past, in any language, I
>have simply given up on the approach.  Another nice theory.
>>>
>
>And yet, many programmers, who understand abstraction reasonably well,
>*have* got this approach to work fine, in very large projects.

I'm with Robert on this one, Joe.  If you understand abstraction, and if
you're _smart_ about how to use Ada packages to capture those abstractions,
then all is well.  Yes, you can have very real problems with Ada when
you're not smart about how you use packages, but this isn't a language
issue per se.  If that's your situation, get some help from an Ada
consultant.

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