Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?

[nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM]

In article <3975C461.13EA3E92@computermotion.com>, Rennie says...

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>nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM wrote:
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>> As others said, any programmer worth half his salary should be able to
>> learn Ada in few days, and become good enough at it in few short weeks.

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>Here I think you are exaggerating a bit (well it depends on what you consider
>"good enough").  I really don't think that many programmers can be reasonably
>expected to employ all the features of Ada that make it valuable, after only a
>"few short weeks". 

Not all the Ada features, but the most common ones. 

I was thinking of a programmer who allready been programming for 2-3 years
at least. Such a programmer can definitly become productive in Ada in
less than one month. of course to become as good as Tucker or Robert Dewar or
others like them on this news group will take years, but I am taking 
about the ability to use the common features of Ada to start writing 
usefull code.

I think if one loves to program, they wil learn programming in any
new languge fast. 

> I think that reasonable competency (which I define as a Ada
>expert not having to hand hold the trainee through a complete design to
>implementation phase) can be achieved in around 6 months. 

OK, we agree. 6 months is 'few short months' :)

reagrds,
Nasser