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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 02:40:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Message-ID: References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <9j1uio$8br$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <5be89e2f.0107171810.1cee29c0@posting.google.com> <3B55C6B0.C2ED36@san.rr.com> <5be89e2f.0107181251.2a616bc4@posting.google.com> <3B565EC1.DE2EEF0F@worldnet.att.net> Organization: LJK Software Date: 19 Jul 2001 05:40:07 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995535611 216.44.122.34 (Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:40:11 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:40:11 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10237 Date: 2001-07-19T05:40:07-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B565EC1.DE2EEF0F@worldnet.att.net>, James Rogers writes: > codesavvy wrote: >> >> Darren New wrote in message news:<3B55C6B0.C2ED36@san.rr.com>... >> > codesavvy wrote: >> > > >> > > I don't care if you think I'm trolling, I'm not. I think the answer >> > > is rather obvious, Ada has nothing to offer that is substantially >> > > better than what C++ offers. >> > >> > Does C++ offer built in and portable multitasking, protected objects, >> > real-time performance, built-in portable interrupt interfacing, >> > distributed programming? >> >> No but do you have any data that measures how much more productive an >> Ada developer is using these features? BTW I like these features in >> Ada 95 a lot. I doubt, however, that producitivity is increased >> significantly by having them available. > > I do not have a study, but I do have an example from my own experience. > Technology, and some universities. My group was the only group > using Ada. All the other groups were using C++. Over a period of > two years my group was able to implement, from the ground up, a > complete system using the initial version of the JAUGS architecture > standard. No other group came even close. So if "productivity" is systems produced per two-year period... > Now, it could have been the size of our development team. After all, > we had the advantage of doing all our work with a three person team. > The other groups were hampered by the existence of much larger > teams. Yes, using less budget is certainly cheating :-)