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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:29:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:87aaqpmve5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org:
> Fritz Wuehler writes:
..
>> Unless you can come up with a programming platform/language/system
>> that costs you less right now, in people, in hardware, in software,
>> you have the snowball's chance in Hell of making it happen. Good
>> doesn't matter, cheap wins every time.
> 
> I'm not so pessimistic, at least I will not give in without a fight :)
> 
> If you already know Ada, then to the evil bean counters, the training
> costs zero; you can offer to give introductory training to a couple of
> your colleagues yourself, reducing the immediate cost of training.  If
> you explain that your use of Ada saves you 20% of the development cost
> *this quarter* and 50% the next quarter, you can win.

If you have good developers, they should be curious enough
to find out more about "this Ada" first hand.  The non-curious
will just do their jobs, and collect pay cheques. They won't
want any change.

With GNAT (and now GNAT with AVR support), good developers should
be curious enough to try it.  The key is to make it a "fun" learning
experience. Make sure they have the tool(s) and book(s) to learn
from. You want to avoid them hitting roadblocks (or compiler
errors) that they don't know how to resolve. So a big part of
winning them over will be resources, resources and resources.

Warren