[comp.software-eng] Ada/C++

bukovins@motcid.UUCP (Dave Bukovinsky) (03/05/91)

I'm looking for any case studies or statistics regarding software
development using ada versus c versus c++.

I know there are probably volumes written on the subject; however, due to
time contraints, etc. I would like to limit my "research" to articles or
personal experiences.

One of the above languages might be chosen for developing a small-medium
(10000-40000 Lines of Code) application on UNIX (both BSD and Sys V), probably
using X-Windows and possibly Sunview, and will be interfacing to external
database system (ie. via library calls, etc.)

Are there any compelling reasons (design, implementation, start-up time, etc)
to use one of the above languages over the other?

Also, I have not cross posted this to other 'language' boards as I have
no desire to start a 'language' war - I am basically looking for software
development environment information.

If anyone could send me pointers to articles comparing the different languages
and their advantages/disadvantages, or even personal histories of starting a
project from scratch using ada or C++ I would really appreciate it.

thanks
----dave


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