Re: Porting Ada to C (Stealth development)

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net>]

On 19 Jan 2002, Simon Wright wrote:
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@bpr.best.vwh.net> writes:
> > I agree completely with Jim Rogers, but getting an organization to
> > adopt a language because one programmer likes it is nearly
> > impossible.
>
> But someone has to start the ball rolling!

Well, Sisyphus, errr, Simon, if you happen to work in a place where you
are the lone programmer maintaining some piece of code, or where you have
lots of power, you may be able to effectively start that ball rolling,
but Dale indicated that that is not the situation. If you're one of many
equals, each with their own pet language, the chance that you'll rally
everone behind Ada is vanishingly small.

VHDL is a tough sell against Verilog in many places in the US, and VHDL is
far, far, far more popular as an HDL than Ada is as a general purpose
programming language.

-- Brian