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From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:00:50 +0200
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usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com a �crit :
> So, what points would you emphasize to each (manager, programmers) to
> make the Ada sale?  I've read a lot of the advocacy and I think I have
> a fair handle on it, but I'd still like other viewpoints, and perhaps
> even examples of such a successful switch.
> 
Theory will never impress a manager. Examples will. For example, it has
recently been quoted here the case of Meteor (parisian metro), in use
since 1998, and whose software is still in version 1.0: no problem
discovered in 12 years of usage.

I also remember an example from a SIGAda conference (no reference at
hand, does someone remember?) about a system in a Boeing airplane, which
was doubly written in C and Ada for reasons of diversification. The C
system had several major upgrades, while the Ada one worked flawlessly.
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