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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? References: <7744bf.vg4.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1188580722.187449.288030@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <46DBB372.5050608@obry.net> <46DC39F3.6040104@obry.net> In-Reply-To: <46DC39F3.6040104@obry.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.33.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com 1188844755 ST000 68.94.33.193 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:39:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:39:15 EDT X-UserInfo1: OPXQBWCFYZRURQX[ZBCBNWX@RJ_XPDLMN@GZ_GYO^BSZUSAANVUEAE[YETZPIWWI[FCIZA^NBFXZ_D[BFNTCNVPDTNTKHWXKB@X^B_OCJLPZ@ET_O[G\XSG@E\G[ZKVLBL^CJINM@I_KVIOR\T_M_AW_M[_BWU_HFA_]@A_A^SGFAUDE_DFTMQPFWVW[QPJN Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:39:14 -0500 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1712 Date: 2007-09-03T13:39:14-05:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > Gary Scott a �crit : > >>You have to deal with the boss you have and the HR department you have. >> They both increasingly are driven by the finance department rather than >>the engineering department, trying to squeeze out that last bit of >>profit margin for the stockholders. > > > That's the whole point indeed and there Ada is cheaper! > > >>They see the larger pool of ready >>trained (C) talent as contributing to holding salaries down (plenty of >>competition) and holding training costs in check. Companies have hiring >>quotas that require 40 and 50 percent hires direct from college, hardly >>well-honed software engineering skills at that stage. > > > And you propose to let them explode the project using C/C++ which is > quite delicate to master ?????? Not I. Management does not perform a complete assessment, nor does it listen to engineering any longer. Short term stock price boosts is the name of the game. > > Pascal. > -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford