Re: Current status of Ada?

[Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 3 Wrz, 13:06, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcha...@sover.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I should think that given a choice between a person who
>>knows C and nothing but C, and a person who has written non-trivial code
>>in C, Ada, Java, and (say) Lisp, the second person would be more likely
>>to be a better programmer... or a better software engineer.
> 
> 
> And likely more expensive for that matter. This scares off the HR
> types like hell.
> 
> Being able to get a bunch of C/Java/whatever coders freshly out of
> college has significant cost implications. Yes, I know that good
> software engineer can be actually cheaper in the long run, but just
> think about it from the point of view of the company that is
> contracted for *time*.
> 
> All this mess is actually the result of the defective economy model
> that we widely practice. (It is also the same kind of mental defect
> that drives toy producers to outsorce their factories to China - just
> to discover later on that millions of their products are toxic or
> otherwise dangerous to kids.) Until *this* is fixed, there is no hope
> for wide adoption of high-integrity production techniques, whether it
> is software or anything else.
> 
Ditto

> {oh, wait - is it comp.lang.ada.and.anything.else? :-) }

I think it is close enough.  It is answering "why is use of Ada declining?".

> 
> --
> Maciej Sobczak
> http://www.msobczak.com/
> 


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