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: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-25 14:02:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq Date: 25 Apr 2003 21:00:43 +0100 Organization: Pushface Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1051304552 14992 62.49.19.209 (25 Apr 2003 21:02:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:02:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36575 Date: 2003-04-25T21:00:43+01:00 List-Id: 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.