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From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/02/11
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"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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