Re: Ada in Iraq

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <1051303356.875377@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> John R. Strohm wrote:
>> THANK YOU for this admission of ignorance.
>> 
>> I now know that I can safely ignore any and everything you say about Ada,
>> knowing that you have previously admitted to having no actual knowledge.
> 
> Umm, yeah, whatever. I'm actually on the OP's side.
> I wish he would be able to get Ada used on his project.
> But from what he says, they embarked on a C++ project
> without having staff who knew C++ well enough to use it,
> are are still having fallout from that. I expect that
> with that attitude, they would suffer the same problems
> using Ada, because they would try to build an Ada project
> using staff who didn't know Ada well enough.

As an Ada fan, perhaps I am happy that Ada is not allowed by such
a management structure.

> Or is it your contention that even people who don't know
> Ada can build a large successful project with it? If so,
> I'll start right away!

In general, no, but based on your overall remarks here you understand
the quality issues well enough that _you_ could probably do it.   But
if there is some C++ that is going to affect my safety, I would rather
it were written by you than by someone else.