Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?

In article <Cz9H4I.5HK_at_ois.com> beckwb_at_ois.com (R. William Beckwith) writes:

[much discussion of ADA, why it is/isn't great deleted]

I think one major reason has been omitted from the discussion. A major factor in what language I develop in is what language the company/department already has invested in. Ada developers are rare. C/C++ developers are all over the place. Therefore, most of the time, my customers want the product in C or C++. The price of software is not how much it costs to develop it, but how much it costs to maintain it. If I can't find a developer who knows the language it was developed in, then I chose the wrong language no matter how cheap the initial development was. Oh, and personally I'd choose smalltalk over all other languages if it was up to me, but the guy with the check in his hands chooses, and that ain't me!

Good Luck,

Brian

Brian J. Zimbelman
Innovative Solutions, Inc.
bjz_at_innsol.com Received on Tue Nov 15 1994 - 05:15:48 CET