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- From: Ted Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:48:18 -0500
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Marine Systems
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- Ketil Z Malde wrote:
- >
- > 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++?
-
-
- I believe that was when it was recoded into Ada (95). If I remember
- correctly, the size of the Ada 83 version was even longer. Ada (95)
- has not been around long enough to have any real reliable numbers about
- how typical this is.
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