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- From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Who uses Ada??
- Message-ID: <SRCTRAN.92Nov11101454@world.std.com>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:14:54 GMT
- References: <SRCTRAN.92Nov8115517@world.std.com> <1992Nov9.174137.11043@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Organization: The World
- Lines: 29
- In-Reply-To: willett@cbnewsl.cb.att.com's message of Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:41:37 GMT
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-
- >> Well.. Let's see how good I am at the assertion game. Anyone who knows
- >> anything about software metrics in the real world, knows how faulty a
- >> measure of project size and significance the LOC count is. Cheers, cheers
- >> for such a vaccuous observation!!
-
- Cheers, cheers for this parody of a stinging rebuke. Which observation is
- vaccous? Dr. Feldman's (and other postings on comp.lang.ada) of Ada projects
- with LOC count prominently displayed, or my rebuttal with real world measures.
-
- In case it was me, let me generalize: for all voluntary decisions regarding
- the choice of a computer language, any measurable demographic (money spent,
- people hired, lines of code, tools used, reusable software used or bought),
- for Ada is exceeded by most older languages (Cobol, Fortran), most newer
- languages (C/C++), or parity for niche languages (Lisp, Forth, Basic).
-
- And just think, I was about to say something nice about ATT's success with
- the use and reuse of its birthed language, C++.
-
- In fact, how about finding out how much C/C++ code that all of ATT has.
- I don't think I have ever seen such a summary anywhere.
-
- Greg Aharonian
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