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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-02 14:57:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD1B626.61863CC7@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? References: <4519e058.0204290722.2189008@posting.google.com> <3CCE8523.6F2E721C@earthlink.net> <3CCEB246.9090009@worldnet.att.net> <3CCFFB7F.B8080F7A@despammed.com> <3CD1608B.A6336379@despammed.com> <3CD176D5.31892591@otelco.net> <3CD18B70.D8FA42B5@lmtas.lmco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 16:56:54 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020376646 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 02 May 2002 16:57:26 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 16:57:26 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23456 Date: 2002-05-02T16:56:54-05:00 List-Id: > But on the other hand, I can site an equally disastrous and quite large > conversion from Fortran to Ada in the mid 90's (an engineering system > integration and software development tool set and associated fixture). > Later ones went from Fortran to C much more successfully. And yes, > there were errors in the original Fortran. There were also introduced > numerous errors in the C code that the Fortran code did correctly. About five years ago, I called someone to discuss the AdaIC "success story" of their use of Ada. Don't remember who for sure, but I think it was a petroleum company. He said that Ada was a really good thing, but that they had gone back to Fortran because more numerical code was available in Fortran. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau