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-Thread: 103376,e7151167e0767ecc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Feasibility of using Ada in new development References: <8429999a.0408231027.2850e800@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408251305.73ed26c8@posting.google.com> <87brgxkbol.fsf@insalien.org> <19b0e504.0408280957.5e266d7@posting.google.com> <877jrjhzx4.fsf@insalien.org> <19b0e504.0408300906.15164bf3@posting.google.com> <19b0e504.0408310911.1e885c26@posting.google.com> <0Q2Zc.2443$TG.1908@trndny01> <19b0e504.0409020718.40a57082@posting.google.com> <9tednWJ_s_4bBarcRVn-qw@megapath.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:09:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1094234955 63.184.104.194 (Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:09:15 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 11:09:15 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3304 Date: 2004-09-03T18:09:15+00:00 List-Id: Dan McLeran wrote: > I assume you made a typo above and mean dumbing-down? I'm not sure I > agree that tool vendors who make tools to make programming easier are > attempting to dumb-down programmers. As far as managers go, that may > be the case. I agree that you cannot outsource software to the lowest > bidder and then get something great out of it. I don't know about you, > but I would be a little nervous if I found out that the software > inside of the 777 I was about to board was given to the lowest bidder. > If this is the case in reality, don't tell me. You'll be pleased to learn that Boeing and Airbus both use Ada for their embedded flight software. They weren't forced to. They did the comparisons and found that the reliability they needed could be obtained more cheaply with Ada than with any other language. -- Jeff Carter "It's all right, Taggart. Just a man and a horse being hung out there." Blazing Saddles 34