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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/18
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In article <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, mjsilva@my-deja.com writes:
> We're bidding on a custom industrial controller, and I've proposed to
> write the firmware in Ada.  The powers-that-be here are satisfied with
> that, but the customer is afraid nobody will be around to maintain it.
> They're happier with C or C++, alas.  Anybody have any good answers to
> their concern?

Just give them a higher bid to do it in C*.

Higher enough that if they give it to you on that basis, you won't
mind not using Ada.