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From: Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java
Date: 1999/02/05
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Date: 1999-02-05T00:00:00+00:00
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mike <mike@newsguy.com> writes:

> In article <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, mll@xmission.com says...
> <snip>

> Even places like NASA now have moved from Ada to C++. I think this is 
> a sign of C++ maturity now, and not a sign that Ada is a bad language.

(Speaking as a NASA employee)

NASA is a big place, and almost never speaks with one mind, especially
on an issue like this. We have programmers that prefer Fortran,
assembler, C, C++, and Ada, to name only a few of the languages I've
run into here. I like to think that those of us who prefer Ada are
more productive (I know I am), but I have no real data on this, and
NASA has no overall policy of measuring such things (although we are
starting the process of becoming ISO 9001 compliant, so there's hope).

So please be more careful about making such sweeping statements.

-- Stephen Leake, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center