Was: Re: Ada95 in Germany

["Tapio F. Marjom�ki" <tapio.marjomaki@nokia.com>]

Nigel Scott wrote:

> Andreas Winckler wrote:
> >
> > jmoor@my-deja.com wrote:
> > > I wonder how many companies are out there where someone had to write
> > > a program and the programmer wrote it in Ada.
> >
> > Here is one.
> >
> > AW
>
> I (and my company) have written loads of programs in Ada.
>
> Nige.

There hangs all the time a cloak of secrecy over the Ada projects (if there
are any), maybe it is due to the military background of Ada. All the
postings concerning this issue are so laconic, that no one can get
conception how large is the project, what is the expected result (product)
and is it going to be obtained, what  kind of mixture of programming
languages are used and so on.

A few will stand forth and say I (we) did it in Ada, nobody says we tried to
do in Ada but  failed (I think there are some).

In my own case (I do not speak for my company) I would say it is too risky
to stay away from the mainstream. First I should have a strong evidence done
by me or associates, until I could convince my superiors, but I can't do
that evidence without a fairly complete set of Ada tools and support
(expensive) or without spending my working hours, for which  I don't have
acceptance of my superiors...

Tapio Marjomaki
Nokia Networks, Finland