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-Thread: 103376,9df2768f19ef857b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power References: <1137903774.826703.118170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1137903774.826703.118170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:51:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.180.13 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1137963103 67.3.180.13 (Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:51:43 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:51:43 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2577 Date: 2006-01-22T20:51:43+00:00 List-Id: 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 78