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- From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:16:07 +0000
- Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
- Message-ID: <313EE197.39ED@lfwc.lockheed.com>
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- Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
- >
- > More like, rarely. Such problems are an infrequent source of frustrations, but
- > they do occur.
-
- and then later wrote:
-
- > Those checks are valuable. Ada is backed by the right idea.
-
- Why would the checks be so valuable if they are so infrequent?
-
- Why is this "the right idea" if, as you proposed in a previous post, the
- real answer is to hire only good software engineers?
-
- > But those checkers _are_ available, and do work. There are a lot of very good
- > such freeware tools, by the way.
-
- And yet, the market is so strong for these tools that I have seen ads for checkers
- at $500 per seat and more. Where does this market come from, to spend this kind of
- money for checking something that occurs so infrequently?
-