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- From: kdm@rational.com (Kent Mitchell)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 17:41:27 GMT
- Organization: Rational Software Corporation
- Message-ID: <4fnu47$m84@rational.rational.com>
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- The Right Reverend Colin James III (cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com) wrote:
- : 1. C/C++ compilers which are industrial quality with professional
- : support are cheaper than the expensive, vendor-gouging Ada ones;
-
- To call most C++ compilers "industrial quality" is a joke. Most C++
- compilers have hideous bugs that a customer would never accept from an Ada
- compiler and *should* not accept from the C++ compiler. However, there
- seems to be a prevailing difference in attitude.
-
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- Kent Mitchell | One possible reason that things aren't
- Technical Consultant | going according to plan is .....
- Rational Software Corporation | that there never *was* a plan!
-