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- From: sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
- Subject: Re: Who uses Ada??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.095150.15706@jyu.fi>
- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- References: <1992Nov6.141916.21177@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>> <EMERY.92Nov6111557@Dr_No.mitre.org> <1992Nov6.182444.28936@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:51:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.182444.28936@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov writes:
- >In <EMERY.92Nov6111557@Dr_No.mitre.org> emery@Dr_No.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
- >
- >>>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).
- >
- >The prediction was for a somewhat higher startup cost (including
- >retraining, buying expensive Ada compilers (as though there were any
- >other kind), and so on), and I suspect what happened is what you
- >wrote: the higher startup cost was iterated over the program lifetime.
- > ...
-
- Thus the whole estimate was bogus!
- I.e. the people who made it did not understand (or believe) at all
- that investing in better tools at the beginning will save costs
- at later stages, not increase them.
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