Re: a good book to start with?

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it>]

Olivier Laurent wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@crs4.it> wrote in message news:<3F85AC8E.4050209@crs4.it>...

>>It doesn't look like that.  According to my sources (inside a company 
>>with ESA contracts), all new contracts come with a C mandate.  I have 
>>had the pleasure of hearing quite a bit of complaints about not being 
>>allowed to use Ada.
> 
> Is there any logic reason for such a diktat?

I haven't been told of any, but there is at least one argument in 
favour: It limits how many programming languages ESA's code reviewers 
have to know. But so would mandating use of Ada or Visual Basic.

Considering that ESA is still paying for the development of Ada 
libraries for their next generation of sattelites, it really seems 
wierd.  And as a tax payer in an ESA member country, I am rather worried 
about the way they spend my tax-money.

Jacob
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