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From: gdemont@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/25
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> I don't sense they have an active animus towards Ada, but only a
> concern about maintenance.  I've prepared a response that tries to
> point out the technical benefits of Ada and the relative unsuitability
> of C/C++ for high reliability software (I found quite a few quotes from
> DoD and NASA documents that help).  I've also tried to emphasize that a
> decent embedded programmer should pick up maintenance Ada quickly and
> that, OTOH, most of the vast pool of C/C++ programmers are not
> necessarily qualified to do embedded programming.

You can make a good use of the following bright paper,
with killer examples (behind Java's problems there are
archaism or bad designs of old C...) and spiritual titles:

ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/jgnat/papers/ada95-benefits-on-the-jvm.pdf

HTH
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