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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:55:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.32.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1085860520 63.184.32.23 (Sat, 29 May 2004 12:55:20 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:55:20 PDT Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:919 Date: 2004-05-29T19:55:20+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Incompetent bonehead managers (which is probably in majority) will only > go with the flow and think C/C++ is the answer to everything. They don't > see that the costs for educating C/C++ programmers into Ada programmers > pays off in the long run. They may not be boneheaded. Many contracts are worded so that the contractor makes more money the longer and more expensive the contract is. Using C/++ tends to make a contract be longer and more expensive than using Ada. -- Jeff Carter "Run away! Run away!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail 58