From: "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>
Subject: Re: Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors.
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:29:40 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-03-26T23:29:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0939ce1d74439af8f7424a0b2c6a1ef.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C9D2202.7030200@worldnet.att.net
"Jim Rogers" <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Adam Tissa wrote:
> > Actually, many of these systems now use C or C++ because of:
> > 1. Management reluctance to approve the use of a dying language.
> > ( Heck, how many new projects are done in COBOL ? )
> > 2. Difficulty finding and hiring Ada programmers.
I don't think so, I'm surely not alone in applying for hundreds of Ada
openings to no avail.
> Actually, management usually has no knowledge of Ada whatsoever.
> They choose C or C++ because they have always used C or C++.
Well, no.
Just a few hours ago, I exchanged email with a recruiter trying to fill
a DoD programming slot for a C++ programmer for a C3I application.
I asked "why isn't that being done in Ada?" [Being confrontational about
lack of DoD Ada use is why I am no longer a contractor for the DoD.]
I got back the answer "my clients moved away from Ada to C++ quite some
time ago"; probably roughly the afternoon of the day the morning of
which DoD welched on its Ada mandate.
So lack of awareness of Ada (and how much better it is than C++ for
writing high reliability applications) is not really the answer, though
your further reference to software fads probably is closer to the mark.
xanthian [Does it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that your
security is being protected by a military deliberately using inferior
software because its leaders didn't have the guts to enforce a mandate
to use superior software? Me either.]
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2002-03-24 0:16 ` Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors Adam Tissa
2002-03-24 0:46 ` Jim Rogers
2002-03-24 6:45 ` Tissa Adam
2002-03-24 19:58 ` Rodrigo Cunha
2002-03-25 10:17 ` Tim Shoppa
2002-03-26 23:29 ` Kent Paul Dolan [this message]
2002-03-24 11:38 ` Simon Wright
2002-03-24 12:42 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-03-24 14:56 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-24 18:59 ` Steve Doiel
2002-03-26 22:42 ` Adam Tissa
2002-03-27 6:31 ` Simon Wright
2002-03-26 22:42 ` Cost of Ada support Adam Tissa
2002-03-26 23:06 ` Mark Johnson
2002-03-27 0:17 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-27 22:14 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-28 15:30 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-29 3:29 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-29 14:39 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-27 12:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-27 9:23 ` Pascal Obry
2002-03-24 13:28 ` Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors chris.danx
2002-03-25 12:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-24 14:52 ` Paul Repacholi
2002-03-24 22:35 ` Greg Bek
2002-03-26 6:48 ` Richard Riehle
2002-03-25 10:42 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2002-03-26 16:27 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-28 3:10 ` Maynard Handley
2002-03-28 5:17 ` Andrew W. Reynolds
2002-03-28 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-03-28 15:54 ` Nick Maclaren
2002-03-28 16:19 ` hack
2002-03-28 17:22 ` Nick Maclaren
2002-03-28 18:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-29 10:04 ` Nick Maclaren
2002-03-29 14:20 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-29 15:09 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-01 14:28 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-01 16:29 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-02 18:21 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-28 15:36 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-29 14:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-03-29 16:56 ` hack
2002-03-29 17:14 ` Preben Randhol
2002-03-29 18:37 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-01 15:53 ` hack
2002-04-01 16:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-02 17:15 ` hack
2002-04-04 10:34 ` pascal stenuit
2002-04-01 17:44 ` Stephen Leake
2002-04-01 18:22 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-29 18:05 ` tmoran
2002-03-29 18:41 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-30 13:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-01 15:35 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-28 15:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-29 14:44 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-02 1:04 ` David Hoyt
2002-04-02 21:51 ` Maynard Handley
2002-04-03 14:34 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 3:34 ` Mark Bottomley
2002-04-04 14:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 16:04 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-04 7:07 ` Ketil Malde
2002-04-04 15:01 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-04 16:54 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-04-04 17:56 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-05 16:57 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-04-05 18:07 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-10 16:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-04-04 7:58 ` Ingo Marks
2002-04-04 15:18 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-08 17:17 ` Kevin Cline
2002-04-08 17:44 ` Ingo Marks
2002-04-08 18:10 ` Nick Maclaren
2002-03-28 17:01 ` Wes Groleau
2002-03-28 17:27 ` Pascal Obry
2002-03-28 18:45 ` Simon Wright
2002-03-29 0:33 ` Ned Holbrook
2002-03-29 2:19 ` Tony Finch
2002-03-29 4:15 ` Darren New
2002-03-29 14:50 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-30 3:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-04-01 14:31 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-01 15:46 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-02 18:28 ` Wes Groleau
2002-04-02 18:48 ` Marin David Condic
2002-04-03 7:17 ` Adam Tissa
2002-04-03 17:58 ` Darren New
2002-03-29 16:28 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-29 17:08 ` hack
2002-03-29 17:38 ` Nick Maclaren
2002-03-30 15:06 ` Peter da Silva
2002-03-30 17:26 ` Erik Corry
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