From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,feca6fc7f3d2dddd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 20:47:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: michael.p.card@lmco.com (Michael P. Card) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Death by analogy Part 1 (was RE: is Ada dead?) Date: 9 Jul 2001 20:47:03 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.208.8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 994736823 31330 127.0.0.1 (10 Jul 2001 03:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jul 2001 03:47:03 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9703 Date: 2001-07-10T03:47:03+00:00 List-Id: 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