Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Well then let's start a company that has *competent*, *non-bonehead* 
managers who are going to use Ada and show a whole bunch of productivity 
improvement over the incompetent, boneheaded managers and their C++ 
developers. In the long run, we'll be making truckloads of money, right?

The only way that Ada is going to get into more projects is if *we* put 
it there because *we* are the ones making the decisions, doing the work 
and accepting the responsibility for the end result. If *we* go off and 
start building avionics computers or some other sort of computer systems 
and *we* use Ada to do that and *we* demonstrate better productivity & 
quality and increased profitability as a result, the rest of the crowd 
will eventually follow. In the mean time, *we* blow *their* doors off 
and get filthy, stinking, Bill Gates, rich because *we* built the better 
mouse trap, right?

As for me? I'm pushing Ada into projects where I can and trying to take 
my organization in that direction. Ultimately, some of us have to take 
on ventures that produce an end product that uses Ada, or it falls 
apart. (Anyone with an interesting venture out there?) Ada isn't *ever* 
going to succeed if we just sit around and wait for Boeing or LockMart 
to decide to put it into their next major aircraft. Calling their 
management boneheaded won't make one single project turn into an Ada 
project either.

MDC

Preben Randhol wrote:

> 
> Incompetent bonehead managers (which is probably in majority) will only
> go with the flow and think C/C++ is the answer to everything. They don't
> see that the costs for educating C/C++ programmers into Ada programmers
> pays off in the long run. 
> 
> However, in this case it looks like Ada is being used.
> 


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