Re: ANNOUNCE: Ada success story in IEEE Software

["Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>]

"Dale Stanbrough" <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:dstanbro-FFA1D2.23113708012002@mec2.bigpond.net.au...
> Rod Chapman wrote:
>
> > It's the kind of system where most people
> > would not even consider Ada, but we found its use to be a significant
> > factor in the success of the project.  The final system achieved
> > 0.04 defects per kloc (that's 4 defects in 100,000 lines of code) post-
> > delivery, which compares favourably with industry norms.
>
> I'm not sure I follow this. If this result is the industry norm,
> and most of industry doesn't use Ada, then why do you think Ada
> was "a significant factor in the success of the project"?

Need to re-read the original post :-)

He said it "compares favourably with industry norms" not "matches the
industry norms"