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]
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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
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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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