Re: Converting Ada Tasks To VxWorks Tasks?

["Michael Hartsough" <Michael-Hartsough@mediaone.net>]

"Jeff Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message
news:38F6623B.C365A224@acm.org...
> I am a certifiable Ada expert (just ask my psychiatrist), and you may
> tell your manager that I said that what he wants you to do is
> impossible. Or at least it will take a Long Time and cost a Lot of
> Money. You may also tell him that I could convert the code from Ada 83
> to Ada in 1.5 days, since it is unlikely to require much more than a
> recompilation, for only half of what the C++ conversion will actually
> cost. He can keep a quarter of the difference for himself, lay off all
> the C++ people, and get a big bonus for saving money.

Yeah, well.....

The moment the "mandate" was lifted, my Director Of Software
Engineering, who knows only the C programming language, announced
that "we" were a C shop. He's tired of trying to hire Ada-knowledgeable
developers, and tired of talking with those of us who know Ada. If you
know something he doesn't you're a threat to him.

I've been vilified by the powers-that-be for making this particular
program multi-tasking. In "our shop" the only way to implement
a real-time system is by employing a cyclic-executive.

Anyways, he has mandated that all Ada code shall be converted to
either C or C++. Ada compilers are too expensive. Ada developers
are too expensive to find and retain.

Forgive me for blowing off some steam. I spent 12 years being a
student of Ada, and now I'm being "retrained" to be a good little
C++ developer. My career, as I knew it, has been destroyed by this guy.

Later,
                MJH