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From: "Jean St-Pierre" <jstp.xremovethisx@cae.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:53:14 -0500
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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 <p.obry@der.edf.fr> wrote in message
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>
> Most of your message is nonsense to me. But others have already pointed
> this out. Let me just add:
>
> "E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net> 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.
>
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