Re: Re: Ada95 in Germany

["Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>]

Tapio F. Marjom�ki wrote
>
>There hangs all the time a cloak of secrecy over the Ada projects (if there
>are any), maybe it is due to the military background of Ada. All the
>postings concerning this issue are so laconic, that no one can get
>conception how large is the project, what is the expected result (product)
>and is it going to be obtained, what  kind of mixture of programming
>languages are used and so on.


If private enterprise companies which use Ada consider it a competitive
advantage (like e-mail and news were 15-20 years ago) then they will be quiet
about it.

One problem is that much that is written about Ada versus e.g. C++ compares
language facilities. This is not particularly relevant since what one wants to
know is the impact on the ETS (Effort To Solution). This is where Ada shines.

There has been no proper academic study of the impact of programming language
on ETS. However there is quite a lot of anecdotal evidence. E.g. the "Ada in
Europe" article in Crosstalk journal. The latest I saw in a newsgroup was a
company which had decided to go for Ada because their analysis of their errors
suggested that Ada would remove 80 % of the problems.

In a situation where access to talent may be the limiting factor then a company
should not be able to afford not to investigate a tool which may slash ETS by
2/3.

Greetings,