Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?

From: David Emery <emery_at_goldfinger.mitre.org>
Date: 15 Nov 94 09:40:17
Message-ID: <EMERY.94Nov15094017_at_goldfinger.mitre.org>


>Ada developers are rare. C/C++ developers are all over the place.

It's a big mistake to equate C and C++ programmers. There's a substantial difference in approach between the two languages. In my observation, the number of C programmers >> the number of C++ programmers. What's worse, the number of people claiming to know C++ >> the number of people who actually understand the language.

Thus a lot of alleged C++ is nothing more than bad C with 'OOP-sugar' sprinkled over the code.

                                dave

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