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From: ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: decline of Ada?
Date: 1996/11/21
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references: <199611121040.FAA16264@bb.iu.net> <3293BBCF.3D78@brainiac.com>
organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
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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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