Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

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

Rewriting an existing system in a new language is mostly a waste of time 
unless a) The existing implementation is so bad that it can only really 
be fixed by tossing it out and starting again or b) You intend to add 
some significant new capability that can't be easily added to the 
existing system. I'd agree that just because a program is written in C 
or C++ is not on the face of it a justification for rewriting it in Ada. 
Solid systems can and have been written in other languages and rewriting 
them in Ada doesn't add any real value. It would be far more productive 
to develop something *new* that gave the world some capability it didn't 
already have.

MDC

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> But I have shown you systems written in C and C++ that are
> responsible for billins in revenue, are used happily and
> productively by millions of people, that are maintained by
> widely distributed groups of programmers, and so forth. Why
> would someone without an axe to grind accept the thesis that
> there is something so intrinsically bad about those languages
> that choosing them for a new project is absolutely wrong?
> 

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