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- From: nabbasi@qualcomm.com (Nasser Abbasi)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 11:09:02 GMT
- Organization: QUalcomm Inc.
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- From "Improving software economics in the aerospace and defense industry:
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- A technical paper by Mike Devlin, Chairman and Walker Royce, director
- of software-engineering process. Rational corp. 1995.
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- "The definition of the Ada language is unique in that it was designed
- to enable better management, design, and architectural control -- the
- higher-leverage aspects of software engineering -- while sacrificing
- some ease of programming.
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- This is the essence of the Ada culture: top-down control where
- programmers are subordinates of the lead architects and managers.
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- Other languages -- specifically C++ -- focus on simplifying the
- programming activities while sacrificing some of the ease of control.
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- This, of course, is the essence of the C/C++ culture where programmers
- lead the way.
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- For small programs and noncritical projects, the C++ culture can work
- well, and the Ada culture is perhaps overkill. For large, complex,
- mission-critical systems, though, the Ada culture is a field-proven
- necessity for success.
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- Culture is a set of trends imposed by humans. Clearly, an Ada culture
- can be practiced by C++ and vice versa, but the paradigm shift for an
- organization with cultural inertia is an emotional and extremely
- difficult undertaking"
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- Nasser.
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