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- From: dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Feb 96 09:18:32 GMT
- Organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
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- ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil Z Malde) writes:
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- ...
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- >I'm certainly not qualified to parttake in this fla^H^H^Hheated debate
- >about Ada vs. C++ -- however, I believe Booch (in "Object oriented
- >analysis and design") cites an example program that shrunk 90% when
- >recoded into C++ from Ada. Question is, is this typical? And if so,
- >is it easier to read/maintain 100K lines of Ada than 10K lines C++?
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- My 2 Pfennig: It would have shrunk to 10 KLOC in all of Ada, C++,
- Eiffel, Sather, whatever during recoding. Maybe we have some kind of
- code compressors, but up to now any recode I saw shrunk a lot and was
- -- even if done by me -- not neccessarily less readable.
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- Dirk
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