Re: Ada and C++: A request for comparison/contrast/relative benifits

[cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeld man@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldman)]

In article <246hpd$1r3@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wr
ites:
>Regarding the note on the difference in the Booch components between the
>Ada and C++ versions.
>
>First, part of the imnprovement simply comes from the recoding.
>
>Second, as Ed Schonberg has described in more details, the work we did
>as the IAT here at NYU showed that the C++ versions could be recoded in
>Ada 9X in a straightforward manner leading to a version that was about the
>same length, but, in our opinion was much more readable [we are not great
>fans of the C++ syntax -- probably one of the languages poorer features]
>
Has this project been published? Will it be? Maybe a few examples at
least?

Also, when this was first discussed on the net (at least a year ago),
some people opined that a lot of the contraction came just from doing
it a second time with benefit of hindsight (the old Brooks principle).
Do you think that simple hindsight played a role?

Mike Feldman