Re: Joint Strike Fighter

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

A lot of things go into the decision to move to C++. The techies may want it
because it is what they know or what they want to know for career
enhancement. Management may favor it because they figure its easier to hire
people who know C++, it has the appearance of where the computer industry is
going and "Nobody ever got fired for buying C++..." lemming mentality.

The point being that there may be emotional, human, self-interest and
business reasons that some companies/projects abandon Ada in favor of C++,
but there are seldom any strong technical reasons for doing so. Hence,
preserving and promoting Ada in more areas is going to have to address the
same things. We've probably won the technical argument by now, but we have
to also win the business and human-factors arguments as well.

MDC
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"JF Harrison" <madscientist@colulus.net> wrote in message
news:mailman.1004589967.2606.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
>   I am a software engineer at LMCO and have no interest in C++.  I
> specifically applied for a job using Ada 95, coming out of the dot bomb
> arena.  I think you are focusing on the wrong people in wondering why it
has
> gone C++.  Functional managers want things done a certain way, and they
> decide.  If programmers newly hired dont even know what Ada is (I've met
> some like that), they aren't going to even have an opinion on the matter,
> much less feedback if asked. ( "Would you like a job programming in
Ada?" -
> "Um, what's that?")  And of course many younger employees want C++ because
> that is what they learned in school (in many cases) so that's their skill
> set, or, yes, they want to get paid to learn it in the first place, for
job
> security and mobility.
>