From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-08 18:20:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.stealth.net!204.127.161.2.MISMATCH!wn2feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B490751.38523577@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> <3b48d207_1@news3.prserv.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:20:06 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.35.69 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 994641606 12.86.35.69 (Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:20:06 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 01:20:06 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9647 Date: 2001-07-09T01:20:06+00:00 List-Id: Andrzej Lewandowski wrote: > > Switching to new language is business decision. Such transition costs a lot and must be > carefully justified. I really cannot find arguments to switch to Ada. For what?... No > programmers, tools in 6 digit range, vendors with unknown financial > future. Moreover, except of programmers we have QA specialists, implementation services, > maintenance service, etc. All these people should know the language to some extent. How it > would cost to replace 50 people? Or to retrain them? And for what? To have "better" > language? > This is all true. At some point someone decided to take the risk to switch to Java. That decision must have incurred all the financial and technical risks detailed above. Why was that risk justified when switching to Ada is not? Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA