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- From: cbrooks@afit.af.mil (Christopher L Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Need help justifying C++ over Ada
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.130427.12611@afit.af.mil>
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- References: <1993Jan12.223715.22865@nosc.mil> <GALLINAT.93Jan18105916@dana.sono.uucp> <1993Jan19.073720.23450@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:04:27 GMT
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- davidk@mcil.comm.mot.com (David Kramer) writes:
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- >In article <GALLINAT.93Jan18105916@dana.sono.uucp>, gallinat@sono.uucp (Douglas &) writes:
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- >...there are some practical reasons that in some cases
- >might be very important:
- > - C++ compilers and tools are much more readily available and cheaper.
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- I agree with you here - they're usually much faster as well.
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- > - It is a great deal easier to find C++ programmers.
-
- Granted...
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- > - With C++ you can easily plug in already existing C code - including
- > #include files.
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- I'm not sure whether your argument here is re-use/modification or just
- interfacing. We've never had any problems here talking to C or C++
- from Ada - in fact, we do it all the time. We've always found it
- easiest to make the Ada program the "main" program however.
-
- Just a few comments...
-
- >--
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- --Chris Brooks
- --cbrooks@afit.af.mil
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