Re: Time to market, was: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?

[Anders Wirzenius <anders@no.email.thanks.invalid>]

Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:

> 
> These same studies show Ada has a factor of 4 fewer post-deployment
> errors, and a factor of 10 less time/cost to correct an error.
> 
> Note to MDC: All other things are not equal, but that was true of
> these projects as well, and Ada still came out with a factor of 2
> advantage on time to deployment.

Ed. Berard once said about rushing too fast into coding: "If your boss wants to see code, take whatever code you have, give it to your boss, and return to your specification of the real product."

You write about post-deployment, my posting that started this thread was a rant (with a smiley) around the theme: "If your customer want it in the afternoon, take whatever you have, deliver it, and start to do debugging".

Yes, it is in the long run all about (final) deployment of the product. Either you deliver many times, or you deliver a few times (or even only once, free of bugs). It is the long run quality that keeps the company alive and in the business. No doubt the persons behind the company may stay in business also by establish new short life companies when the present company fails to get new orders. You may only fool once, but you may always start fresh with a new company. ;)

Anders