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- From: mbk@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Matthew B. Kennel)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 26 Feb 1996 17:07:04 GMT
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- Nasser Abbasi (nabbasi@qualcomm.com) wrote:
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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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- Would somebody from Rational care to explain what aspects of C++ they believe
- simplify the programming activity compared to Ada?
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- : Nasser.
-