From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/11
Date: 2000-02-11T09:17:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38A3D2BE.F1681408@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 880f9k$i7n1@ftp.kvaerner.com
"Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote:
> Perhaps you should challenge their understanding of
> economics. It is people who cost money.
I maintain systems with several 100 kLOC written in Ada - I know all
the positive arguments for Ada.
But here are the arguments I'm facing daily which all your arguments
do not address:
- I don't know Ada an I don't want to learn it
- Ada is a dieing language
- too little chances to make career with Ada
- Ada people are hard to find and expensive
- maintenance is paid by the customer
- Ada is too big and slow
By the way, right now I'm dealing with a core dump in an Ada process.
Quite bad, that I was always arguing that this does not happen in Ada.
What I really need is not ammuniton to argue, I have enough of it by
myself. I'm just sick of arguing alone against lots of C++ and Java
guys in our company. Ada is good but it's just being rolled over by
the reality, at least in our company.
AW
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-22 0:00 GNAT Support Costs Robert Kirkbride
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Craig Spannring
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler [this message]
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Rush Kester
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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