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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/24
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In article <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net>, "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net> writes:

>                First, how long would it take me (a long-time C [and a bit of
> C++] programmer) to get productive in Ada?

That should not be a problem if you really want to learn it.
Read some of the great textbooks out there to get a feel for
programming in Ada.  When you start to think in terms of
arrays rather than pointers to arrays, for instance, you
are starting to get into the spirit of things.

>                                        Second, what is the best way to
> present the case to my boss?  He's open-minded, but switching to a new
> language that I don't know is bound to require plenty of justification.

You should be able to say:

	1) On paper, it appears Ada provides the following benefits...

	2) I have tried some sample work similar to what we do in
	   our business and my own experiments show Ada is the best
	   choice.

If you cannot answer "yes" to number 2 (for whatever reason),
then you should not make a change based just on the internet
comments of a bunch of zealots :-).

Larry Kilgallen