Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 10 Mar, 09:27, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:

> Things are not as bleak as Maciej makes them seem; by his own admission,
> most of the bugs he encountered were with interfaces.

This is true. I have eagerly used interfaces in my project, because
they properly represent my design habits in the particular domain I'm
interested it. I like limited unconstrained types, too and extended
return construct completes this picture.

> the real figure is probably 1% for us,
> below noise level.  That's probably because we don't use interfaces :)

This is perfectly OK and represents the continuity of your long-term
project, which started long time ago. I would never expect to see the
same code structure in your project as in mine, as they have been
started in completely different circumstances.
I'm also fully aware that experience with the given toolchain
contributes a lot to the final result. I can imagine that for every
new development I will do, the effort related to compiler bugs will be
a lot smaller - I will simply know what to avoid and I will be able to
foresee workarounds before I will actually need them. This is obvious
and that's why I don't despair and treat it as a (unavoidable?) step
in the whole process of adopting the new technology.

But we are talking about companies selecting Ada for new projects, not
about benefiting from old experiences.

Imagine a company that selects Ada for a pilot project or for
evaluation and that hits the same kind of problems. Fighting with the
compiler is not something that such a company should experience at the
very beginning. If "Ada is too difficult for us", then what? Stick to
Java?

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Maciej Sobczak
http://www.inspirel.com/