Re: Embedded Ada Development Tools

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

A couple of things: It isn't *that* hard to find people who know Ada &
embedded systems. It isn't *that* hard to get someone up to speed enough on
Ada to make them productive. All languages have to start from somewhere &
obviously people succeed in learning them as they emerge and needs arise to
use them, so I don't really see the problem. (Note that things like C# and
.Net are emerging and suddenly everyone wants to find people with 20 years
of experience working with them. Too bad. You'll just have to *train* them,
eh? :-)

By your argument, embedded systems should never have gone outside of
assembler because someone might learn the "new" language and quit and you
wouldn't be able to find people who knew the new language. Yet it has been
done over and over again. Fear not - if the need arises, intelligent
programmers will learn whatever language is needed to get the job done. :-)

MDC
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Marin David Condic
Senior Software Engineer
Pace Micro Technology Americas    www.pacemicro.com
Enabling the digital revolution
e-Mail:    marin.condic@pacemicro.com


"Jason Gerry" <jgerry11@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I agree with most of the information posted.... and.... not to start a
> flame war or anything,  but could you imagine doing embedded Ada
> development within a small project team, and the ada developer was to
> leave the company..... Yikes! ... I understand Ada is easier to
> maintain, but you still need someone off the street who is adept at
> embedded systems programming and Ada coding.... It would keep me up at
> night.
>