Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?

Erland Sommarskog (sommar_at_enea.se) wrote:
: My point is that just because you know C, doesn't mean that you have
: less to learn to become a good C++ programmer, than someone whose
: never seen C before. In fact, if you have experience in Eiffel, Simula,
: <snip>
: From this follows that if you have a bunch of C programmers (or Cobol
: programmers, an even more common phenonemom), you wish to re-educate,
: Ada or C++ is not much difference. It is a considerable investment
: in both cases.
 

: Of course, in real life managers think it is much easier to upgrade
: the C programmer to a C++ programmer than an Ada one, and goes on
: shooting himself in the foot.

Does this mean the official name for Ada-9X should be C-Ada ??? ;^}

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