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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,539157e0f6cd0993 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-12 18:23:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!demon!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: C programmers and safety critical systems programming Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:38:18 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3D062BA8.5B7F2C26@NOSPAM.visteon.com> <4519e058.0206120659.2567dcee@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1023896301 8664 136.170.200.133 (12 Jun 2002 15:38:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2002 15:38:21 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25839 Date: 2002-06-12T15:38:21+00:00 List-Id: Thanks. I sent him a note on my experiences with measured improvements in productivity and quality. Who knows? Maybe he will follow up on this subject again? MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:4519e058.0206120659.2567dcee@posting.google.com... > > One of the blue buttons on the top (far right) is labeled "feedback". > I used it to respond with a link to the rational study (which bascily > says the same thing his article says, but has numbers to back it up), > and to argue that his noticed decrease in % use of Ada among reader > survey respondents might not mean a whole lot. > > He has already sent me a rather nice reply promising to look at the > study. He also pointed out that there has been a huge increase in the > embedded market as a whole over the last few years, so it is quite > possible that Ada use in embedded systems is increasing, yet its > market share is dropping. I thought that was a rather good point. >