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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/18
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In article <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  mjsilva@my-deja.com wrote:
> We're bidding on a custom industrial controller, and I've proposed to
> write the firmware in Ada.  The powers-that-be here are satisfied with
> that, but the customer is afraid nobody will be around to maintain it.
> They're happier with C or C++, alas.  Anybody have any good answers to
> their concern?

This sounds like a job for the Rational paper:

http://www.rational.com/sitewide/support/whitepapers/dynamic.jtmpl?doc_k
ey=337

Things to point out:

   o  They found that for the whole life-cycle, *including* maintenance,
Ada was about twice as cost-effective as C.

   o  This was achieved with a workforce that was *much* more
experienced in C than in Ada.

   o  "In general, developers each do better in Ada than in C,
regardless of their level of experience and salary."

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T.E.D.

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