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: 103376,13f10cac2d21b84f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-02 07:05:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD1475B.482F5E85@raytheon.com> From: Mark Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is this a GNAT bug??? References: <9gBz8.4053$451.2378814669@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <4519e058.0205010908.7ebc64fd@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:04:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.27.48.39 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020348342 192.27.48.39 (Thu, 02 May 2002 09:05:42 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:05:42 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23409 Date: 2002-05-02T09:04:11-05:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > Portability in this regard is not so important if the rest of the > program is specific to a particular environment for other reasons. Don't discount the need for portability. I have worked on at least two projects in the last 10 years where we moved code that was over 8-10 years old between platforms. The first one replaced a system with 2 on site support engineers and < 100 hour MTBF with a system that had on call support and > 1700 hour MTBF. The second system has >$300k/year maintenance and the replacement hardware cost about $200k. Making it easy to do the move can be done without a significant cost today - if you use the right methods. --Mark