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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/18
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Tucker Taft wrote:
> 
> Another important point is that good programmers can learn new languages
> quickly, and Ada compilers provide excellent "training wheels" because
> of their abundant compile-time error checking.
> 

This is a positive factor in some project manager's minds concerning
the long-term maintenance issues.  The typical project has high
skills (analysts and contract-rate programmers) at the front end
and lower skills (college grads) at the back end.  Because the
language catches so many problems up front, the less skilled
developers/maintainers are able to be more productive and
introduce fewer problems during maintenance.

-- 
Stanley Allen
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