From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Time to join the fold?
Date: 1999/01/22
Date: 1999-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78abg4$cnc$1@its.hooked.net> (raw)
Sometime this year my company will embark on a bigger and better version of
their industrial controller product family. The current product uses a 16
bit chip programmed in C (I'm the main programmer, BTW), while the next
generation will be 32 bit (not yet chosen). While I don't know Ada, I've
lurked here for a while, and have been reading the "Ada vs C++ vs Java"
thread with great interest. Now I feel that I would be remiss not to
investigate Ada (Ada95 specifically) as an alternative to migrating our
current C code to the new products, and have ordered some books to start
learning the language.
Now for my questions (all assuming that I determine that switching to Ada is
a good idea). First, how long would it take me (a long-time C [and a bit of
C++] programmer) to get productive in Ada? Second, what is the best way to
present the case to my boss? He's open-minded, but switching to a new
language that I don't know is bound to require plenty of justification. I
know of most of the main Ada web sites and the success stories and "why Ada"
articles they have, but I was wondering if some of you might have further
opinions and/or experiences in "converting" a project or company to Ada.
Thanks a bunch for any insights.
Mike Silva
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Mike Silva [this message]
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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