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Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:44:35 +0200
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Gary Scott a �crit :
> You have to deal with the boss you have and the HR department you have.
>  They both increasingly are driven by the finance department rather than
> the engineering department, trying to squeeze out that last bit of
> profit margin for the stockholders. 

That's the whole point indeed and there Ada is cheaper!

> They see the larger pool of ready
> trained (C) talent as contributing to holding salaries down (plenty of
> competition) and holding training costs in check.  Companies have hiring
> quotas that require 40 and 50 percent hires direct from college, hardly
> well-honed software engineering skills at that stage. 

And you propose to let them explode the project using C/C++ which is
quite delicate to master ??????

Pascal.

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