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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/13
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Gordon Dodrill wrote in message <36E96E42.26AD@sandia.gov>...
[...]
|Even though the larger project has dropped Ada, there is a
|smaller (about 5 persons) project that is still committed to
|the use of Ada.  About 70% of my time is commited to this
|project, so we still have a foot in the door for the future,
|and I will continue to campaign for Ada.


This should turn out to be an excellent development.  I think I can see what
will happen, and I don't think it will turn out to be any exaggeration.  The
big C++ project will suffer almost indefinite slippage, a sea of
unmanageable bugs, and a staff turnover of gathering speed.  The smaller Ada
project, on the other hand, will come in on time, on budget, and within
spec.

Of couse, unfortunately, by the time it does, the project manager who made
the decision to switch to C++ on the bigger project will have long gone, and
your objection to it in the first place will get conveniently forgotten.
But I am not a cynic, and with a little luck you will be put in charge of a
larger project, for which Ada will be (allowed to be) selected as the (main)
language.  I certainly hope so.

[...]
|Gordon Dodrill
|Sandia National Laboratories - Albuquerque, New Mexico

Best of luck.

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Nick Roberts
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