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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 19:29:11 -0700
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Pat Rogers wrote:
> 
> 
> According to the Zeigler Paper (for the case of C and Ada), the productivity
> boost of going to Ada was 400% IIRC.  Pretty big boost, for a quite
> reasonable -- and comparable -- price!

YDRC.

The paper doesn't say that at all.  It gives cost per source line
as $10.52 for C and $6.62 for Ada.  OTOH it allows that Ada is more 
verbose than C, so not so much relative difference per delivered
function.  
The figures are weakened some when you consider that Ada and C were not 
tested on identical projects, and this result is closer to whatever I 
said than it is to 400%.  Furthermore, he concludes by saying what I 
typed, that other factors are more important than programming language.  

He attributes at least some (he doesn't say how much) of the advantage
of
Ada not directly to the language itself, but indirectly from the things 
that Ada 'encourages', ie better program design and better
documentation.  
If a manager sees that he'll do better with better program design and 
better documentation, he'll try to encourage that directly before he
goes 
into the big six figures to deploy and train a whole new set of tools. 


Al