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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
- Subject: Re: Review of "Ada & C++: A Business Case Analysis
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 21:32:15 GMT
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- jonesm@nic.cerf.net (Matthew Jones) writes:
- : Recently I got a copy of:
- : Overiew of U.S. Air Force Report
- : Ada and C++: A Business Case Analysis
- : Form G75-1191
- : AdaCPLUS.HLP
- :
- : This paper supposedly compares Ada and C++ and of course find Ada
- : to be superior. I found this paper to be filled with errors and
- : very questionable opinion. Here are a few comments
-
- Here are a few more comments:
-
- 1. Besides being biased (the report was produced by government contractors,
- and "The customer is ALWAYS right."), that summarry is over a year old.
- The reports from which it is summarized are older than that. However,
- "The Powers That Be" are still quoting it as current. (See the Straussman
- speech at the last Software Technology Conference.)
-
- 2. Those who mandate the usage of the standard don't have to use it. Congress
- deals in legal code (not at all like computer code), and President Bush just
- learned to use a computer less than two years ago and is supprised by the
- technology in supermarket scanners. Besides, ask any parent how effective it
- is to give someone a mandate. (There is much more to be said against the
- mandate, but that can be said later.)
-
- 3. Did you notice in the summary that C++ does better in compile-time and
- run-time speed, but Ada is better for real-time? Aren't run-time speed and
- real-time performance the same thing? I wonder what other glaring errors
- were made in the reports that didn't make it through to the summary.
-
- Oh, and before anyone thinks that I'm a C++ bigot let me tell you: I've never
- used C++, but I use Ada at work. I'd rather not use Ada.
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