This is a typical case of "being right, but being dead". You're right to say that an Ada programmer is forced to follow better programming practices than your typical C programmer. However, I know at least two companies that have rewritten the code of their software tools from Ada to C++ mostly because they were not able to maintain a stable team of Ada programmers at a reasonable cost (to be fair, there were also some portability and compiler issues). Those Ada programmers were good, but certainly not easy to find. Pascal Obry wrote in message news:uy9z5tox1.fsf@der.edf.fr... > > Most of your message is nonsense to me. But others have already pointed > this out. Let me just add: > > "E. Robert Tisdale" writes: > > > It is easier to find and train C and C++ programmers > > than it is to find and train Ada programmers today > > so there is a strong incentive to prefer C or C++ over Ada. > > > > Maybe, but it is easier to find GOOD Ada programmers than C > programmers. Ada programmers have a strong background on > design, modularity, readability... at least they have heard > about that! > > Pascal. > > -- > > --|------------------------------------------------------------ > --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member | > --| | > --| EDF-R&D-MTI-NTIC- T A I C | > --| Intranet: http://cln46gb | > --| Bureau N-023 e-mail: p.obry@der.edf.fr | > --| 1 Av G�n�ral de Gaulle voice : +33-1-47.65.50.91 | > --| 92141 Clamart CEDEX fax : +33-1-47.65.50.07 | > --| FRANCE | > --|------------------------------------------------------------ > --| > --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry > --| > --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"