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- From: gemung@plaza.snu.ac.kr ()
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 8 Mar 1996 14:38:14 GMT
- Organization: Seoul National Univ. Computing Center
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- Dirk Dickmanns (dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de) wrote:
- : dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) writes:
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- : >In article <dirk.824894312@demokrit>,
- : >Dirk Dickmanns <dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:
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- : No. I replied to it.
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- : >>>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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- : Hey Dave, wake up and count the quote marks :-) I did not write this,
- : so if you quote parts of someone else, please not with my name on top!
- : Actually, my reply on the above post was almost the same as yours:
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- : >That comparison was with Ada 83. My experience is that you can write
- : >fewer lines of Ada 95 to do the same thing in C++ (see my Booch
- : >Components homepage). SO, the question should be:
- : >It it easier to maintain 9K of Ada 95 than 10K of C++?
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- : >(In reality, it's a silly argument, but I just get tired of seeing
- : >those _extremely old_ statistics of C++ vs Ada being quoted, because
- : >all those comparisons are of C++ vs Ada 83)
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- : Again what I said:
- : My 2 Pfennig: It would have shrunk to 10 KLOC in all of Ada, C++,
- : Eiffel, Sather, whatever during recoding. Maybe we have some kind of
- : code compressors, but up to now any recode I saw shrunk a lot and was
- : -- even if done by me -- not neccessarily less readable.
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- : Dirk
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- : Dirk Dickmanns -- real-time dynamic computer vision
- : Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Transputers -- embedded
- : Ada 95, Ada 83, OCCAM2/3, ANSI C, Eiffel 3, PROLOG
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