Re: Embedded Ada Development Tools

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

jgerry11@yahoo.com (Jason Gerry) wrote in message news:<e8a5e1a4.0206060519.ce12ba@posting.google.com>...
> flame war or anything,  but could you imagine doing embedded Ada
> development within a small project team, and the ada developer was to
> leave the company..... Yikes! ... I understand Ada is easier to
> maintain, but you still need someone off the street who is adept at
> embedded systems programming and Ada coding.... It would keep me up at
> night.

Presumably you are comparing this with a similar situation using C. 

Actually, I know of a couple of studies that found that novice Ada
programmers who knew C still had more productivity and less bugs when
they used Ada instead of C. Plus, Ada's generally considered easier to
read and understand than C, which will be a big help once the
replacement developer is hired.

So actually, I think I'd be way more worried about my embedded
programmer for a C system leaving than for an Ada one.


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