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- From: mbayern@mlb.win.net (Mark Bayern)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: RE: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?
- Message-ID: <15@mlb.win.net>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:03:47 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Reply-To: mbayern@mlb.win.net (Mark Bayern)
- Organization: The Internet
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- X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 9:34.1.52
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- Jack Beidler writes:
-
- >> ... Practically all of the posting are missing the "real"
- >> reason. It has to do with economic considerations (read
- >> my company wants to make more money).
-
- I'm afraid you're absolutely correct! But you don't have to look
- into the update cycle to see Ada's commercial problems. Look at the
- original cost of getting the language. Want to use C in your
- embedded 80x86? Both MSC and TurboC list for (much) less than
- $1000. That and a little work and you're up and running. Ada? How
- about $25,000 for a license, and $5,000 for the _required_ first
- year 'support'!
-
- If I choose to use C I've invested less than $1000 in software,
- instead of $30,000. I've also invested a little work in porting
- the C runtime startup code to the embedded system, but during that
- time the team has been learning the details of the hardware. Plus
- the money is spent locally on labor, instead of spent to some large
- Ada firm.
-
- (Hmmm... now I'm having problems remembering why I choose Ada for my
- commercial products. Oh yeah! It had something to do with
- validated compilers and run-times that wouldn't have any bugs or
- support problems, silly me!).
-
- Mark
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