Re: Joint Strike Fighter

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <mailman.1004589967.2606.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, JF Harrison
says...
>arena.  I think you are focusing on the wrong people in wondering why it has
>gone C++.  Functional managers want things done a certain way, and they
>decide.  If programmers newly hired dont even know what Ada is (I've met
>some like that), they aren't going to even have an opinion on the matter,
>much less feedback if asked. ( "Would you like a job programming in Ada?" -
>"Um, what's that?")  And of course many younger employees want C++ because
>that is what they learned in school (in many cases) so that's their skill
>set, or, yes, they want to get paid to learn it in the first place, for job
>security and mobility.

That almost perfectly sums up my experience in the matter. The folks pushing for
C++ (or other languages for that matter) over Ada are almost never the
experienced engineers who will actually have to *use* the damn language. Some
fresh out of college types would prefer not to use it too, but they generally
come around after they actually use it for a while.

Way back in the "mandate" days I worked on one project where our lead software
developer basicly took over the entire project (with the backing of the rest of
us developers of course). Program management had our Ada waiver all ready, and
was absolutly shocked when we didn't want it. :-)

That was the best-run project it has ever been my privelege to work on, btw.

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