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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691988167 References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BB50B.96F77015@cadwin.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 973856666 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:44:26 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:44:26 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3A0BB50B.96F77015@cadwin.com>, Nicolas Brunot writes: > Lao Xiao Hai wrote : > >> HmmmMMMMMmmmm. Are you suggesting that the "cost to maintain a team >> of Ada programmers" is a function of the language? > > No it is just a concern of the company it is to much difficult to find > programmers and if their cost is too high. > The company has to deal with the entire development cost, and availability > of programmers and their turnover has a cost. > It is quite easy and cheap to find a C++ team in comparison with an Ada > team, just before you'll find a bunch of C programmers for just one Ada > programmer. If you find a C programmer who cannot learn Ada, you have not found a good programmer. The economies of staffing up with bad programmers escape me.