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- From: emery@Dr_No.mitre.org (David Emery)
- Subject: Re: Who uses Ada??
- In-Reply-To: robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov's message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:19:16 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:15:25 GMT
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- >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?
-
- I'd very much like to see a reference/citation for this, as it flies
- in the face of both deeply held religious beliefs and also most of the
- available data (e.g. Reifer studies, AFATDS preliminary data, etc).
-
- dave p.s. I've seen some people come
- up with higher start-up costs for Ada. (In part due to retraining,
- learning the language, etc, and in part due to front-loading the life
- cycle by spending more time doing design.) It's possible that someone
- took the delta from start-up costs, and applied it into his favorite
- old-fashioned cost model to obtain linear cost increases.
-