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- From: yong.liu@computex.com (YONG LIU)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 17:06:00 -0500
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- Organization: International CompuTex, Inc., Atlanta, GA (770)953-1464
- Reply-To: yong.liu@computex.com (YONG LIU)
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- -> > Anyway, I think the reason commerical companies do not use Ada as
- -> much is > not really due to the cost of the compilers. It is the
- -> fact that once a > company starts using one langauge (say C++)
- -> there is a large inertia > behind this. It will become difficult
- -> to have the company switch > from using one language to another
- -> once they have written allot of > their software in one language.
- -> Programmers get used to using one > language, using support tools
- -> for that language, you have training > courses, skill base is
- -> build in one language, and then no manager will > want to risk (or
- -> be brave enough) or take a chance in trying something > new.
- ->
- -> I agree. Infact many shy away from changing the compiler they use
- -> on a specific project that has been around for years, unless the
- -> current compiler they are using is so full of bugs that they must
- -> change, or the compiler is no longer appropriate for their purpose.
- ->
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- I just wanna ask, when did Ada come out and when did C++?
-
- Yong
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