Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <8l2pqo$im7$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, wv12@my-deja.com writes:

> In article <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   mjsilva@my-deja.com wrote:

>> I realize that implicit in their position is a belief that Ada offers
>> no great tangible benefits to the project (even though the machinery
> to
>> be controlled is big, expensive and remotely-located),
> 
> C has been known to control big, expensive hardware. One such
> example is the mutinode Deep Blue capable of searching a few million
> nodes per second. Is the speed critical in this project? If so, I see
> on reason to avoid Ada that checks every shift, rotate, add, multiply
> in your software.

I gather your argument is to use the controls on the Ada compiler
to disable checking in the production version.  My understanding
is that many embedded developers do that, but I think we should
leave that decision up to the technical staff on a module-by-module
basis, rather than restricting them from ever using checking by
choosing a language that does not provide it.