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,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-31 07:17:49 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Message-ID: References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> <8tmmat$e79$1@dns3.cae.ca> Organization: LJK Software Date: 31 Oct 2000 10:17:40 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 973005464 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:17:44 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:17:44 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1660 Date: 2000-10-31T10:17:40-05:00 List-Id: In article <8tmmat$e79$1@dns3.cae.ca>, "Jean St-Pierre" writes: > This is a typical case of "being right, but being dead". > > You're right to say that an Ada programmer is forced to follow better > programming practices than your typical C programmer. However, I know at > least two companies that have rewritten the code of their software tools > from Ada to C++ mostly because they were not able to maintain a stable team > of Ada programmers at a reasonable cost (to be fair, there were also some > portability and compiler issues). Those Ada programmers were good, but > certainly not easy to find. So they hired guaranteed long-term C++ programmers who were incapable of learning Ada ?