byrne@arecibo.aero.org (04/26/91)
I recently received the following message. I'm wondering were the C++ mandate is coming from. I had not heard of this policy decision. What document can be cited for using C++? --------------------- START OF RELAYED MESSAGE ------------------------------ From aero-c!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!IDA.ORG!csed-56.ida.org!rlw Thu Apr 25 12:51:47 PDT 1991 Article: 5519 of comp.software-eng Xref: aero-c comp.lang.c++:13206 comp.lang.c:39376 comp.software-eng:5519 Path: aero-c!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!IDA.ORG!csed-56.ida.org!rlw From: rlw@ida.org (Richard Wexelblat) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng Subject: Tools to aid c++ development Message-ID: <1991Apr25.165247.17613@IDA.ORG> Date: 25 Apr 91 16:52:47 GMT Sender: rlw@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat) Reply-To: hook@ida.org Organization: IDA, Alexandria, VA Lines: 25 As I am sure you know, the U.S. Department of Defense is hooked on Ada and cannot get off. So it was not a surprise when the Air Force came to us and asked us to build for them a catalog of commercially available Ada compilers and CASE support tools. It WAS a surprise when they asked us to include c++ compilers and tools, too. Making a long story short, it turns out that c++ is the Lord High Substitute for Ada and there is a rather large class of applications for which c++ may well turn out to be the preferred substitute. (I know, that class probably includes 100% of the applications, but this is the Air force, Mr. Jones!) So. We know about most of the compilers, tools, etc. that are heavily advertised. But what else is out there? What do you use, like, recommend, sell? Please note that no one involved in this cataloging effort reads this newsgroup. (At this benighted place mostly no one reads news at all!) Please send responses to Audrey Hook (hook@ida.org) Thanks. -- --Dick Wexelblat (rlw@ida.org) 703 845 6601 Can you accept an out of state sanity check? ----------------------- END OF RELAYED MESSAGE ------------------------------