Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 6/20/2010 5:29 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Show them that no, C is not "good enough".
>

This is what I said earlier. show them, but with small clear code 
examples,  side-by-side, Ada vs. C, show why in each example, Ada is better.

Making lectures to C programmer about how much better Ada is in the 
abstract, will not work, it will sound like a politician making a 
typical speech about how good a job they will do if elected.

btw, if someone is really good in C, and very careful, and stick to the 
standard, they can produce solid code.

Many large applications are written in C all the time, the problem I 
think, is that it takes more skill and effort to produce as reliable 
code in C as with Ada, but it can be done, given more effort, skill, 
time and money, and lots of coffee.

--Nasser