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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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In article <u3derttjr.fsf@wanadoo.fr>,
  Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> In my case (I pretty well understand that this is not the case for
> everybody - [1]) our customers want a tool (not the code). Before, I
> was asking if Ada was a possible choice and you know the answer, now I
> just don't ask (the language is not part of the deal - as I said they
> want a tool with such and such features) and I just do it in Ada.
> That's it "Just do It" !

I am using this trick too. Unfortunately it works only if you deliver a
complete system (tool) and the customer is so uneducated that he does
not know how to turn the computer on.

[ It is a real story! (:-)). A customer wanted a quality control
system. A bit image processing, a bit pattern recognition. I managed to
bring Ada into that project. After the system was tested and installed,
we received a "bug report" from the customer. We sent our engineer there
and he discovered that the customer didn't turn on the computer!
Thank to Ada, it was the LAST bug report. ]

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Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov


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