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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,37a634fc53a64509 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c2f4cdd9ccfb8ede X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jerry Petrey Subject: Re: Something doesn't compute here (was Re: How many different processors do you use?) Date: 1999/06/09 Message-ID: <375E52CD.238FB101@hercii.mar.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 487459007 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7jk7hk$36s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jl0jt$qve3@svlss.lmms.lmco.com> Organization: Lockheed Martin Corporation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.arch.embedded Date: 1999-06-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Kristola wrote: > > IMO, there seem to be two factors moving companies and people > away from Ada: > > 1. Companies don't want to train people (it costs money). > 2. Ada knowledgeable software engineers are rare and therefore > expensive, and companies would rather have a cheap workforce. > > While it is most likely true that experienced people working > with the support of a language like Ada can probably out > produce (per their cost) entry level name> coders, this does not seem to be taken as pertinent where > the decisions are made. > > Welcome to the race for the bottom (line). > How true! And to paraphrase an old expression - you get what you pay for - at best! Jerry -- ===================================================================== = Jerry Petrey - Consultant Software Engineer - Member Team Ada = = Lockheed Martin Member Team Forth = =====================================================================