Re: Ada in Iraq

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:

>       Some of them think I am "obsessed" with Ada, and none of them
> seems to think the choice of language is of fundamental importance
> anyway. It's an "implementation detail" as far as most of the
> managers are concerned.

In some senses it is, or at least could be.

You will probably model your application requirements in some
high-level way (UML springs to mind), with translation rules written
to govern how the model is to be converted to code.

Those rules may be implemented by software (in which case you can have
your very best C++ guys work on it, and it doesn't much matter that
most of your people don't know C++ because to them it's just a
high-level assembler) or by developers, in which case you probably
need all the help you can get from language, tools and process.

Personally I'd rather do the automated translation to Ada; every
little helps.