Re: Current status of Ada?

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Aug 31, 7:25 am, <adawo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I used to do a lot of training and consulting for Lockheed and CSC related
> to the Aegis project.   Soon after the Paige memo, Lockheed dictated that
> the software for Aegis would be written in C++ instead of Ada.  Almost all
> training in Ada stopped, and the programmers were given intensive training
> in C++.   I told everyone that it was a big mistake, but my advice was of
> little interest to those who were already biased toward C++.   The answer
> was, "We can find C++ programmers right out of university CS programs,
> but no one teaches Ada in CS."

Sigh...  My initial reaction to this is that this thinking is just
totally wrong-headed, and for reasons having nothing to do with the
languages involved.  I frankly wouldn't expect good results from
*anyone* who can program in language X because it's what they learned
in college but couldn't pick up language Y; to me, I wouldn't trust
someone like that to have a real understanding of "software" or
"programming", and because of that I wouldn't expect them to write
good software no matter how good language X is, even if it were Ada.
Ada is not a good enough language to make up for a fundamental lack of
software engineering understanding.

But I could be way off base.

                           -- Adam