Re: Current status of Ada?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 3 Wrz, 13:06, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcha...@sover.net> wrote:

> I should think that given a choice between a person who
> knows C and nothing but C, and a person who has written non-trivial code
> in C, Ada, Java, and (say) Lisp, the second person would be more likely
> to be a better programmer... or a better software engineer.

And likely more expensive for that matter. This scares off the HR
types like hell.

Being able to get a bunch of C/Java/whatever coders freshly out of
college has significant cost implications. Yes, I know that good
software engineer can be actually cheaper in the long run, but just
think about it from the point of view of the company that is
contracted for *time*.

All this mess is actually the result of the defective economy model
that we widely practice. (It is also the same kind of mental defect
that drives toy producers to outsorce their factories to China - just
to discover later on that millions of their products are toxic or
otherwise dangerous to kids.) Until *this* is fixed, there is no hope
for wide adoption of high-integrity production techniques, whether it
is software or anything else.

{oh, wait - is it comp.lang.ada.and.anything.else? :-) }

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Maciej Sobczak
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