Re: Ada in Iraq

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> Preben Randhol wrote:
> > C++
> 
> I don't why you keep harping on C++. I'm not talking
> about C++, I'm talking about whether you can take
> programmers who don't know Ada and have them produce
> a well-designed system in Ada before they acquire a
> deep and thorough understanding of the language.
> 

In my experience, yes. But that's more a function of sound design than
choice of language. The project I'm thinking of was originally going
to be implemented in C, but the customer wanted us to switch to Ada
after the design was finished. Design was done mostly in SDL, btw.
The programmers got a crash course in Ada, and went at it, using a
subset which was roughly equivalent to Pascal plus generic
packages. Tasks were not used because of limitations in the DBMS we
were interfacing to.  We could certainly have used more of Ada, but
given the time constraints and the existing design, it seemed sensible
to stick to a limited subset.

The system was the first ATCCIS demonstration facility, btw.

-- 
Ole-Hj. Kristensen

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