From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Pat Rogers" Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/25 Message-ID: <4Oxp5.428$Ze5.13712@nnrp3.sbc.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 662434676 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> <39A655BE.18E89020@maths.unine.ch> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuseswbell.net X-Trace: nnrp3.sbc.net 967223552 208.191.184.67 (Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:12:32 CDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:12:32 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrn8qd0gn.bjs.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > I don't think a big project written in C would be very cost efficient > compared to Ada. Thus perhaps saving money in the short run (by not > developing Ada), but not in the long run at all. Some baggage never gets lost... This idea that development in Ada is more expensive than in other languages must be challenged whenever we come across it. The tool costs can be very reasonable and in my experience (and others' as well) programmer productivity can be extremely high indeed. All other things being equal, in a contest between highly-skilled Ada programmers and highly-skilled C programmers, I'll bet on the Ada people to produce the final code faster. pat --- Patrick Rogers Consulting and Training in: http://www.classwide.com Deadline Schedulability Analysis progers@classwide.com Software Fault Tolerance (281)648-3165 Real-Time/OO Languages Adam ... does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant. Mark Twain