Roy Grimm a �crit dans le message : 37372A84.641F2133@bigfoot.com... > > Third, training a programming team a new language is expensive. Not > only do you have to provide the training, you have to pay the > programmers for the "dead time". Many companies are not willing to take > the short term expense. > It cost but I would not say that it is expensive. A computer language to learn is just syntax. The expensive part are the concepts like : Information hidding, encapsulation, data abstraction, polymorphisme, inheritance, .... But all this should be known by any good software engineer. Now when you understand all these concepts, learning a new language is not that expensive but it still cost a bit. Pascal.