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=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	MSGID_RANDY,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no
	version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/11
Message-ID: <7h8oe8$2js$1@cf01.edf.fr>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 476500336
References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca>
 <37372A84.641F2133@bigfoot.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211
Organization: EDF
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1999-05-11T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


Roy Grimm <ragrimm@bigfoot.com> 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.