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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:51:43 GMT
Date: 2006-01-22T20:51:43+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <zfSAf.4750$Hd4.1439@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137903774.826703.118170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

pnkflyd831@gmail.com wrote:

>  Does anyone have any statistics on the Expressive Power of Ada in
> terms of lines of Ada code to lines of Assembly code?  Additional data
> would be useful as it affects the usefulness of the statistic, however
> limited data is better than none so any contributions would be much
> appreciated.  Target platform, compiler used, optimization settings,
> would probably be relevant.  Also aspects of the language used: tagged
> types, access types, tasks, protected objects, dynamic allocation,
> exception handling ect...

Capers Jones collected information on the average LOC per function point for a 
variety of languages. I don't know if that will help you. See

http://www.theadvisors.com/langcomparison.htm

Assembler (basic): 320, Ada: 49.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"It's symbolic of his struggle against reality."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-22 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-22  4:22 Question on Ada Expressive Power pnkflyd831
2006-01-22  9:46 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-01-22 15:20 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2006-01-23  3:08   ` adaworks
2006-01-23  5:47     ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-22 20:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2006-01-23  1:10 ` Gene
2006-01-23 13:11   ` adaworks
2006-01-23 20:06     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-23 10:39 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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