Re: Idiom for a class and an object in Ada

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

Matthew Heaney wrote:
> For reasons I can't fathom, many Ada95 developers still have a very
> Ada83 mindset.

The reasons for this are numerous - e.g. some of us still work with Ada83
projects on a daily basis, development processes for Ada95 projects may have
been inherited with little or no change from previous projects. Changing
implementation techniques to make to 'best use' of a language would also
impact on the process and procedures for the design phase. Where a process
is already in place and not obviously failing there may be little impitous,
time or money to re-write these processes. Sometimes design processes are
shared between projects working with different implementation languages -
how do you do 'indefinite' in 'C'?..

I work for a CMM Level 5 company, so our processes are always undergoing
improvement but this sort of change is much lower in the priority list than
getting processing in place to get the best from our UML/CM/Change Control
systems.

It generally isn't out of dogma or badness or not wanting to do the 'right
thing'.

-- Martin