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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lucretia Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <774c25c4-3270-4ffb-ad19-366a0ab16659@i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> References: <101bf8f3-b823-45ee-9afd-40cbafb4b7a9@t26g2000prt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 90.194.162.21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1277218828 10804 127.0.0.1 (22 Jun 2010 15:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:00:28 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=90.194.162.21; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-gb) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze/sid () Epiphany/2.30.2,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11866 Date: 2010-06-22T08:00:27-07:00 List-Id: Ask them what they don't like about C and developing in C (via a questionnaire if necessary), then show them how to do it in Ada, showing the benefits. This might help get the point across. Luke.