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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ceef1cf4561e32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ken Garlington" Subject: Re: Customer balks at Ada -- any hope? Date: 2000/07/18 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 647963950 References: <8l01s4$gnr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3974A1D5.1F9AA2E5@Raytheon.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 963958688 216.215.86.46 (Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:18:08 CDT) Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:18:08 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-07-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Samuel T. Harris" 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?