From: ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: decline of Ada?
Date: 1996/11/21
Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <571n61$1ou2@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3293BBCF.3D78@brainiac.com
JBisaillon (jbisaill@brainiac.com) wrote:
: I've been building systems, primarily Naval systems for about 15 years.
: You can not code a system in Ada and be cost competitive.
The agent told his customer that this motor saw will cut 100 times more
trees a day. After a week the customer complained that he would cut
even less trees than before by hand. The agent started the motor to demo.
"Oohh, what a noise is this?" asked the customer.
: I can get
: two or three good "C" coders, X-Windows coders at the price of one Ada
: programmer.
realistic estimation ;-)
: Been there, done that!
no comment
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-12 0:00 decline of Ada? Sam Harbaugh: Palm Bay, Florida
1996-11-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-20 0:00 ` JBisaillon
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Peter Hermann [this message]
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-23 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Darel Cullen
1996-11-22 0:00 ` decline of Ada? - piffle Dave Wood
[not found] <DavidC.159.32806FF8@ise.canberra.edu.au>
1996-11-07 0:00 ` decline of Ada? Jon S Anthony
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