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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: One language environment don't have future
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:34:55 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-02-04T13:34:55+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnb3vgas.458.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.16.1044365405.3911.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

Beard, Frank Randolph CIV wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.

And if memory serves me well this was the (or at least one) initial
concern that sparked the development of Ada :-)

-- 
Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov



  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-04 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-04 13:29 One language environment don't have future Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
2003-02-04 13:34 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2003-02-05  8:40   ` Amir Yantimirov
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2003-02-06 18:05 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
2003-02-07  8:24 ` Karel Miklav
2003-02-04 13:15 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
2003-02-04 15:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-02-04 16:30   ` Thierry Lelegard
2003-02-05  8:57     ` Volkert
2003-02-05 10:29       ` Thierry Lelegard
2003-02-05 11:01         ` Preben Randhol
2003-02-05 16:07           ` Volkert
2003-02-06 11:00             ` Preben Randhol
2003-02-05 16:04         ` Volkert
2003-02-04 11:43 spam
2003-02-04 11:53 ` Preben Randhol
2003-02-05  6:53 ` Karel Miklav
2003-02-05 17:33   ` Stephen Leake
2003-02-06 15:46     ` Karel Miklav
2003-02-06 20:37       ` Kevin Cline
2003-02-07  5:29         ` Amir Yantimirov
2003-02-07  7:51         ` Karel Miklav
2003-02-08 19:04           ` AG
2003-02-10  7:36             ` Karel Miklav
2003-02-10 16:17           ` Kevin Cline
2003-02-08 18:38         ` AG
2003-02-09 14:25       ` Stephen Leake
2003-02-09 16:28         ` Simon Wright
2003-02-05 20:56   ` Kevin Cline
2003-02-05 17:35 ` Stephen Leake
2003-02-05 18:45   ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-02-06 20:06     ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-02-06 20:22       ` Larry Kilgallen
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