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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: fd7c9,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfd7c9,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public From: Jack Rudd Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/13 Message-ID: <34428215.41C6@lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280285260 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <3441B496.41C6@lmco.com> <34424524.B8C67C@kaiwan.com> Organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran Date: 1997-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: safetran wrote: > > Can you provide more info about why the project got cancelled ? The short answer is, inability to meet cost and schedule constraints. One large contributing factor to this was the use of OO in Ada by a team that had no previous experience with OO in Ada. The other contributing factors are irrelevant to this thread. > I have been using Ada quite successfully since about 1991 - non > defense/non aerospace companies. The projects are _hard_ real-time, > embedded (we design our own embedded hardware) and safety critical. In > fact being safety critical, the software _has_ to meet its deadlines > otherwise there could be some serious problems :) > Fine. I have no quarrel with success. How did your team perform the first time using OO in Ada? Was it on a small project? Jack Rudd