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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-11 16:56:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn51feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Call for Ada References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <406EB6D2.8030801@noplace.com> <87d66pyw1g.fsf@insalien.org> <406EEC35.7040109@noplace.com> <874qs0zvy1.fsf@insalien.org> <40714C98.90601@noplace.com> <1073gv22t969q5a@corp.supernews.com> <40729B9D.30906@noplace.com> <1076000ef5oj06f@corp.supernews.com> <0emdncWNfbOyUendRVn-gg@gbronline.com> <40794E51.6010803@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <40794E51.6010803@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:56:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.1.251 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1081727771 63.184.1.251 (Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:56:11 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:56:11 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6986 Date: 2004-04-11T23:56:11+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Just remember that with *lots* of software, nobody actually *cares* what > the error rates or long-term costs are. They need to GET TO MARKET > QUICKLY and they can worry about the debugging (if at all) later. If Ada > can't do it as quickly as some other language (perhaps because of > infrastructure and/or related libraries) then it LOSES every time. Why? > All the long term benefits in the world don't matter if there is no > "long term". You've got to get your product out before your competitor > does or they own the market. Nobody has to *like* that fact - they just > have to live with it. The same 2 studies show that Ada projects reach deployment a factor of 2 faster than equivalent C projects. -- Jeff Carter "C++ is like giving an AK-47 to a monk, shooting him full of crack and letting him loose in a mall and expecting him to balance your checking account 'when he has the time.'" Drew Olbrich 52