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- From: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux)
- Subject: Re: Who uses Ada??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.141916.21177@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov
- Organization: New Technology, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov3.191829.22803@csusac.csus.edu> <9110003@hpavla.lf.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:19:16 GMT
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- In <9110003@hpavla.lf.hp.com> hawk@hpavla.lf.hp.com (Dave Hawk) writes:
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- >How about those of us that want to use Ada, but are told to use C?
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- Amen to that. Would you believe that at one point, the estimated difference
- in lifecycle cost (i.e. the total delta over the estimated 30-year
- life of a particular system) was $45 million HIGHER if Ada was the
- development language?
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- I didn't believe it either, but it's unfortunately true.
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- And of course I'm not speaking for NASA or New Technology, Inc.
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- -Paul
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