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From: Bernd.Specht@gmx.com (Bernd Specht)
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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
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kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote in
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> You could, but your manager would reply that the vast majority of
> embedded programming today is being done in C, and yet product
> liability
> settlements and recalls due to bugs in embedded C code are quite rare,
> and that his team has long experience writing embedded code in C 
> and that so far projects have been delivered on time with acceptable
> defect rates.  In short, that you are proposing a risky solution to a
> non-existent
> problem.
> 

Full ack. 

If it's a small company, let say five sw-developer, three hw-developers etc, 
they made some products with C, the complete tool-chain is based on C, and 
now you say:"Trow it all away, spend $50000, and make it in Ada now (with 
untrained personal,who really _likes_ C) the they will call you "lunatic" 
and you can search a new job.