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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,11414a19b0e4a97a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:14:46 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <87hbkym4i2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87aaqpmve5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4c1e8486$0$6759$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <87631dmdmz.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: c00eBs/j4mUkprxQFmXQpg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11841 Date: 2010-06-20T18:14:46-07:00 List-Id: 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