Re: C++ Standardization (was: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)

[nasser@apldbio.com]

In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961020164601.4990D-100000@nunic.nu.edu>, Richard says...

>  And yet, David, we both know, and many readers of this forum know, that
>  many DoD projects are being programmed in C++.  I just learned of a
>  critical missile system, orginally planned to be done in Ada, which has
>  been programmed in C++.  
>
....
>  We need to make the case that Ada is a better business decision,
>  not just a better language design.
>


Why do we need to make this case?

If a manager does not want to use Ada, let them. 

If someone is not smart enough to see an advantage in using Ada,
let someone smarter than them take advantage of this fact, and 
produce better software using Ada, which means they'll sell
more software and make more money with less completion, since the
end customer only cares about the quality of the product, not what
language it was written in, let the free market and the free 
competition decide. (When I go buy a car, I only care that it is
a good quality car, not HOW and what tools where used to build it).

If I want to open my own software company (as an example!) , and I 
believe Ada is the better choice language over C or C++, then I'll 
be very happy to see less people using Ada and more using C and C++, 
because this means I will have less competition for producing higher 
quality software, and if I believe that using C and C++ produces more
problems in the software than when using Ada, then the more my 
competitions use C and C++, the better I'll be. 

Just IMHO offcourse.

Nasser