From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:43:49 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2010-06-21T13:43:49+00:00 [thread overview]
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> I may have the opportunity to pitch Ada for use in some new projects
> (industrial equipment) at work.
Your situation may be better (industrial equipment) than the
one in which I made an attempt. But I think you will face two
major challenges:
1. Price tag on Ada development suite (depending upon
"equipment" choices) - a management sell. In my
case, the idea was considered too "weird" to be
taken seriously (in a financial institution).
2. Selling it to the development staff (which you mentioned)
To pitch it to management, I think one possibility is to
demonstrate it in something inexpensive. I understand
that GNAT 2010 will support the AVR suite. So that has
almost zero cost if you do a "proof of concept" project.
As part of that, perhaps you can organize a pair of
"challenge" teams. Have the project well defined and
involving concurrency. Measure the progress and success
of each team.
Selling to the development staff may be a tough sell,
outside of the US. If there is a virtually zero job
market for Ada, then I've seen developers snub it
for that reason alone. If you have that problem, then
a favourable management decision might be where your
focus should be. ;-)
> In the end, it seems, it all comes down to money. Money saved in
> greater productivity and less debugging, money saved in lower
> liability and maintenance, money gained from satisfied customers who
> get a robust product, and maybe even money saved in having programmers
> who have a more powerful and safer tool at their disposal.
Maybe. I sense that some defence contractors enjoy the
followup servicing of bugs, if they can charge for it. ;-)
Warren
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2010-06-20 6:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
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2010-06-21 14:07 ` Warren
2010-06-20 7:00 ` J-P. Rosen
2010-06-20 7:40 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-06-20 12:46 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-06-21 14:23 ` Warren
2010-06-25 17:34 ` Marco
2010-06-28 13:22 ` Warren
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2010-08-21 9:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-21 10:10 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-22 0:16 ` Brian Drummond
2010-06-20 9:34 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-20 12:35 ` Peter C. Chapin
2010-06-20 17:44 ` Fritz Wuehler
2010-06-20 18:06 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-20 21:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-06-21 0:29 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-06-21 1:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-06-21 8:10 ` Georg Bauhaus
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2010-08-21 4:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-21 9:21 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-08-21 11:06 ` Brian Drummond
2010-06-21 14:40 ` Warren
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2010-06-21 20:07 ` Warren
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