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From: marick@cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Effort estimation based on language
Keywords: cost estimation, effort estimation, language
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.152726.17282@cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 15:27:26 GMT
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dougs@baldwin.WV.TEK.COM (Doug Schwartz;685-2700;61-252;641-4115;Baldwin) writes:

>I seem to recall something about NASA comparing Ada and FORTRAN in the
>development of (flight?) simulators.  It seems like it was in EE Times
>a couply of months ago.

You may be referring to `Lessons Learned in the Transition to ADA from
Fortran at NASA/Goddard', Carolyn Elizabeth Brophy, U. Maryland
Technical Report UMIACS-TR-89-84, August, 1989.

From the abstract:

"One surprising result was that the percentage of time the Ada project
spent in the various development activities was very similar to the
percentage of time spent in these activities when doing a FORTRAN
project.  Another surprising finding was the difficulty the Ada team
had with unit testing as well as with integration.  [It goes on to
describe what should be done differently next time.]