Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

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

O.K. But if I manufacture a gazorenthorpe with a PowerPC processor in it 
and I program it in Ada and then go sell the gazorenthorpe to the end 
customer, what does he care? What language is your VCR programmed in? 
What about your word processor? Do you know? Do you care? At that level, 
all you care about is that it works and you got it for a good price. So 
if someone writes their RFP stipulating that it must be done in Java, oh 
well. That's a job we're not bidding on. (Or you make a proposal to do 
the whole job invisibly in Ada and that your $$$ figure is better than 
everyone else's because Ada is so clearly superior that you can get the 
job done at substantially lower cost, correct? Or maybe we don't believe 
that?)

But why not come up with some end product that the customer doesn't care 
about the software beyond the point that it works? Build some useful 
little thingamabob that satisfies some need and program it in Ada. Sell 
it successfully and Ada jobs will be created. If Ada jobs are created, 
there will be more Ada programmers in the world. More Ada programmers 
makes a healthier environment in which Ada can flourish. It ain't gonna 
happen if we keep waiting for the rest of the world to see the wisdom of 
building things in Ada.

MDC


Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
> That's only part of the problem. I think everybody on this group can build
> something that utilizes Ada... The real problem is to *sell* it. This is
> the difficult part! On many domains now, if your proposal does not contains
> the word "Java" (whatever it means) you are out !
> 
> Pascal.
> 


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