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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc89792b5613be6a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Michael Hartsough" Subject: Re: Converting Ada Tasks To VxWorks Tasks? Date: 2000/04/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 611052690 References: <1crJ4.142$d21.18564@elnws01> <38F6623B.C365A224@acm.org> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Trace: elnws01 955707095 24.29.206.244 (Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:11:35 CDT) Organization: MediaOne Express -=- Central Region X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 05:11:35 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Jeff Carter" 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