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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/18
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Ken Garlington wrote:
> 
> Is programmer training the only risk? What about the possibility that the
> industrial controller hardware may go obsolete, and the replacement may not
> have an Ada compiler? What about the host computer being used for software
> development? Is it more likely that the selected Ada vendor may stop
> supporting the product, or charge so much in the future that it becomes
> economically infeasible to stay with Ada?

Of course the availability of Ada-to-C translators mitigates
the potential for Ada vendor not supporting, or ending support for,
current/future hardware! If there is or will be a C compiler then
there is or will be an Ada compiler.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"