From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e17f534f2b26df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-21 13:50:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news3.cnt.ru!mtu.ru!news.rosnet.ru!newsfeed.rt.ru!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!blanket.mitre.org!news.mitre.org!emery From: David Emery Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why Ada not used much in commercial server side development Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:47:59 -0500 Organization: The MITRE Corporation Message-ID: <211220001647597099%emery@mitre.org> References: <914haj$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gargoyle.mitre.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: top.mitre.org 977435281 28054 128.29.123.65 (21 Dec 2000 21:48:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.mitre.org NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 2000 21:48:01 GMT User-Agent: YA-NewsWatcher/5.0.0 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3337 Date: 2000-12-21T21:48:01+00:00 List-Id: In general, I've found that the money invested in a quality Ada binding (strongly typed, modular, etc) is easily returned in avoiding/detecting errors at the point of the interface. This is true both due to the fact that the interface is both between parts of the program and also different programmers (e.g. the style arguments on this newsgroup), and also between possibly two design styles. On one project, 8 weeks total, 5 programmers (40 staff-weeks), 1 staff-week spent doing the binding, we figure that we saved 2 or 3 staff-weeks worth of debugging. As we implemented about 1/7 of the total system for this prototype, we extrapolated another 14 staff-weeks of savings due to the binding. In reality, after a while you'd stop making mistakes, but I could project easily a 5-1 return on investment for the binding over the total development of the project. dave