Here's an apples to apples study proving otherwise: http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.pdf http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.pdf

Here's an apples to apples study proving otherwise: http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.pdf http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/cada_art.pdf The others from that time period by the military and defense contractors showed something similar. In only one case did I see C++ and Ada tie but why wasnt evident. Note this was before automated proving in SPARK, Design-by-Contract in Ada 2012, and co tract/type/property-based testing tech. The numbers would likely be even higher. Of course, one would want a comparison against tech designed for same things in C which are plentiful now.