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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,be9bf965710b207c
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-21 00:41:34 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!213.56.195.71!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail
From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: official recommendations of Ada
Date: 21 Jul 2001 09:40:49 +0200
Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry
Message-ID: <uvgkmspa6.fsf@wanadoo.fr>
References: <bebbba07.0107162313.66a58a69@posting.google.com>
 <5be89e2f.0107200443.678562ea@posting.google.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mix-velizy-107-1-159.abo.wanadoo.fr
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 995701293 28473 193.249.44.159 (21 Jul 2001 07:41:33 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr
NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jul 2001 07:41:33 GMT
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.104
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10388
Date: 2001-07-21T07:41:33+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


codesavvy@aol.com (codesavvy) writes:

> From management's view point, using Ada instead of C/C++ is taking a
> major risk 

What is the major risk ?

You probably know the statistics: more than 80% of projects (at least in my
domain which is Information System) are doubling the budget or the time to
deliver or both.

So the risk the manager is going to take is:

  "Well, let me risk to have this project be delivered on time"

Quite a hard to take risk, right ?

I think the manager and developers don't want to switch just because they are
not willing to do something different... just keep doing what we have always
done.

You'll say, but the cost of learning a new language ?

I'll answer, no problem for a real and experienced developer team. Just a week
of practice. The problem is not the language but the underlying principles:
OO, encapsulation, abstration, information hiding...

Just my 2 cents,
Pascal.

PS: I'm a guy who have taken the risk for a IS project :)

-- 

--|------------------------------------------------------
--| Pascal Obry                           Team-Ada Member
--| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE
--|------------------------------------------------------
--|         http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry
--|
--| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"