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- From: gmckee@cloudnine.com (Gary McKee)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:43:26 -0700
- Organization: McKee Consulting (Consulting in Ada)
- Message-ID: <AD51EB3E966823592@p50.denver1.dialup.csn.net>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <312515DF.7D3B@cmlj.demon.co.uk> <4gad29$ddp@druid.borland.com> <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com> <eg4tslzr18.fsf@trost.ii.uib.no>
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- In article <eg4tslzr18.fsf@trost.ii.uib.no>,
- ketil@ii.uib.no (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++?
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- On the other hand, I have never seen a large program (10k+ loc) that could
- not be rewritten with significant improvements. The second time is always
- easier, smaller, cleaner, and more elegant.
-
- Then you add in Grady's obvious expertise with OO stuff and the
- statististics aren't surprising. I bet that he could find a fortran or C
- program with similar improvements when written in Ada95 if he decided to
- make the effort.
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