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- From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Message-ID: <DnC932.GLs@research.att.com>
- Organization: AT&T Research, Murray Hill NJ
- References: <4gb4r3$psg@qualcomm.com>> <eg4tslzr18.fsf@trost.ii.uib.no> <dewar.824906485@schonberg>
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:45:01 GMT
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- In article <dewar.824906485@schonberg> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
-
- > "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++?"
-
- It depends on the author, as Prof. Dewar should know --
- I would rather maintain his assembly language code
- than most other people's code in any language at all.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@research.att.com
-