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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:10:17 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop References: <87hbkym4i2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87aaqpmve5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4c1e8486$0$6759$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <87631dmdmz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4c1f1e69$0$6884$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jun 2010 10:10:18 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 7ab313a7.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=;6F``X0LnjT\PS5Xo=M[RVA9EHlD;3YcR4Fo<]lROoRQ8kFRSBhmZ On 6/21/10 3:14 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Many large applications are written in C all the time, the problem I > think, is that it takes more skill and effort to produce as reliable > code in C as with Ada, but it can be done, given more effort, skill, > time and money, and lots of coffee. Do you happen to have a coffee consumption statistics? Does it include controlled variables such as programmer age, sex, language, average office temperature, religion, rank, etc? Georg