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: 103376,4f316de357ae35e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-01 14:37:53 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!world!news From: Robert A Duff Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr Usenet Himself) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 21:37:05 GMT References: <20020730093206.A8550@videoproject.kiev.ua> <4519e058.0207300548.15eeb65c@posting.google.com> <20020731104643.C1083@videoproject.kiev.ua> <3D487CDA.24D9B1AE@san.rr.com> <20020801142038.J1080@videoproject.kiev.ua> <3D495747.C71E4CDC@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:27587 Date: 2002-08-01T21:37:05+00:00 List-Id: Darren New writes: > Your experience may differ, but in my experience, I've never spent less than > a month writing a program that is still running 20 years later. :-) We have scripts written in Perl (etc) that have lasted many years (since before I joined the company). I suspect they were written in less than a month (each). More like an hour each. But we've spent untold hours maintaining them. I'm talking about things like, "zip up a bunch of files for a release, put it in the version 1.234 release directory, run some regression tests, and then send some mail to somebody-or-other notifying them of something-or-other." I wish they were all written in a language that had Perl's features for doing stuff, and Ada's features for making it work reliably. - Bob