Re: Joint Strike Fighter

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

It depends entirely on the project and what the project needs. In some
cases, you need little more than a compiler. In others, you might find
significant leverage with another language because of the availability of
(for example) GUI tools, databases, application-specific code generators,
etc...

Please don't misunderstand me - I'm a fan of Ada and want to see it used
widely. I believe there are lots of places it already fits nicely and more
places can be made to fit as tools progress. The more widely it is used, the
more likely I can find work doing what I like best. :-) I'm merely observing
that (to be generous) some projects may migrate to C++ because of perceived
availability of tools & resources and that's not totally illigitimate.

But I suspect there is more liklihood that the root causes are emotional and
human. We human beings have a way of deciding what we want to do for our own
interests and then going off and find reasons why that has always been "The
Right Choice". :-)

MDC
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"Ian" <ian0kerr@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Working currently on the VSTOL predecessor of JSF I don't find
> anything that we need from Ada and the available tools that C++ would
> provide. Our process,(on a different project) is described in FULL in:
>