From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?
Date: 2000/07/18
Date: 2000-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AI4d5.10471$zW2.163680@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3974A1D5.1F9AA2E5@Raytheon.com
"Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com> wrote in message
news:3974A1D5.1F9AA2E5@Raytheon.com...
> Ken Garlington wrote:
> >
> > Is programmer training the only risk? What about the possibility that
the
> > industrial controller hardware may go obsolete, and the replacement may
not
> > have an Ada compiler? What about the host computer being used for
software
> > development? Is it more likely that the selected Ada vendor may stop
> > supporting the product, or charge so much in the future that it becomes
> > economically infeasible to stay with Ada?
>
> Of course the availability of Ada-to-C translators mitigates
> the potential for Ada vendor not supporting, or ending support for,
> current/future hardware! If there is or will be a C compiler then
> there is or will be an Ada compiler.
Are you sure that buying/maintaining/getting training for an Ada and a C
compiler is cheaper than just using a C compiler?
Are you sure that, if there's a C compiler that runs on the FWW (Future
Wonderful Workstation) host, there will be an Ada compiler that runs on the
FWW host?
Are you sure that there are as many vendors for Ada-to-C "translators" as
there are C vendors?
Are you sure that any translation issues will be fixed immediately by the
Ada vendor at no charge?
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2000-07-17 0:00 Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? mjsilva
2000-07-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-17 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-07-18 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Philip Anderson
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Harry Erwin
2000-07-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` nabbasi
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Rennie Allen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Joseph C Williams
2000-07-21 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-18 0:00 ` wv12
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Scott Ingram`
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
2000-07-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-07-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` fdebruin
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope?--Warning Significant Thread Drift Ahead Jeff Creem
2000-07-20 0:00 ` Kieran Mckey
2000-07-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-07-19 0:00 ` Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Ken Garlington
2000-07-19 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
2000-07-25 0:00 ` mjsilva
2000-07-25 0:00 ` gdemont
2000-07-25 0:00 ` Gary Scott
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