Re: Death by analogy Part 1 (was RE: is Ada dead?)

[michael.p.card@lmco.com (Michael P. Card)]

Hey Mario (& everybody else on CLA)-

You wrote:

> Actually this might be a non-issue: it has been demonstrated (hopefully my talk at Ada'2001 helped ;-) that contrarywise to common belief Ada is a
> better language also for programming "in the small". Also a common mistake is to judge the learning curve of Ada longer than that of Java or C++.
> It is not, at least significantly. It is about a year long in every case.

I agree with you here; I would rather use Ada "in the small" too, but
it to me it seems almost necessary when programming "in the large"!

>Of course there is the problem of Ada programmers shortage. Or is it 
>really? Michael does not seem to have any trouble bringing together
> "tens of [Ada] programmers"...

I was mostly referring to the past here; we don't have Ada projects
that are as big as we used to have. I would guess most of our Ada
projects today range from the size of the Ada team on my project (3
people) to maybe 20 Ada programmers, and most of our projects are
probably 6-10 Ada programmers. Of course, what they are building is
smaller than what we used to build too.

- Mike