Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/11/2012 02:10 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>
> I worked on an Ada project where Ada SWEs with ~5-15 years experience
> were tasked with a text manipulation problem.  Took these senior
> engineers *days* to complete the project.  One of them deviated from
> the crowd and used PERL.  Took him less than 2 hours to complete the
> coursework.  After that, the company banned PERL for that particular
> project (fyi, it was a six sigma project).

How long it took to write something for a "coursework" problem is not indicative 
of anything. On real projects, ease of reading is more important than ease of 
writing, and time to write is not a major concern.

> There is a good reason Ada is "unpopular" for text parsing and
> manipulation.

There is a good reason languages like PERL are banned from projects that are 
concerned about quality.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You me on the head hitted."
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
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