RE: One language environment don't have future

["Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" <frank.beard@navy.mil>]

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From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol+news@pvv.org]

> Besides how will your VB programmer be able to change a part of a
> project written in C++/Ada/whatever unless he also learns this language?

This is an interesting point that I meant to comment on.  It leads to
multiple points of failure.  The project would have to be modularized.
But this would only compartmentalize the failure point.  If you lost
your expert in any area, there would definitely be down time, learning
curves, etc.

We have this problem on our current project.  It was built with Ada,
Delphi, and C++.  Another related system used to build messages to send
to it, was built using M$ VB.  To maintain it, you need someone who knows
each language fairly well.  Otherwise, you could end up with kludged
updates in the future.

Frank