From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-07 13:07:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dead Fred the Head Red Reply-To: VladLenin@kremlin.ru User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? References: <3E1A020F.8BD6EB6B@adaworks.com> <20619edc.0301071035.6abf3662@posting.google.com> <3E1B39F3.175A8A4C@raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <9kHS9.2361$c6.2540@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:07:17 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1041973637 151.168.133.155 (Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:07:17 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:07:17 EST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32704 Date: 2003-01-07T16:07:17-05:00 List-Id: >>1) How is such a decision (choosing the language for a major project) >>made, especially when the language chosen has not been proven in such >>applications? > > Usually the managers .... tend to listen to the engineers they perceive as being > knowledgeable ..... These engineers, in turn, are thinking of what > will be the best for their career and what they are most familiar with. [snip comments about them picking C++ because they know it] OR they are familiar with Ada and know it's the best choice, but they believe that getting Java on their r�sum�s is a good career move.