Re: Child packages

[bketcham@u.washington.edu (Benjamin Ketcham)]

In article <EACHUS.94Oct20110915@spectre.mitre.org>,
Robert I. Eachus <eachus@spectre.mitre.org> wrote:
[...]
>    With education and tool support, the problem should disappear
>relatively quickly as old code is updated to new standards.
[...]

Wait, I thought the benefit of Ada (even Ada 83, which is, after
all, still the only validated standard, isn't it?) was that you
didn't *need* to "update old code to new standards" because the
standard was so safe and readable and mission-critical and a
whole bunch of other things that supposedly justify paying ten
times as much up front, because it will last ten times as long
and maintenance costs will be lower and so you'll save money in
the long run and....

So which is it?  Will the "problem" "disappear relatively quickly"
because all that "legacy" Ada code that was supposed to last 1000
years now needs to be changed to the Even Better, Enhanced, Last
Language You'll Ever Need (And This Time, We Mean It) standard?
Or will the "problem" be hanging around for *decades* because all
that yucky Old-Style Ada 83 just keeps going, and going, and....

<picture your favourite emoticon here>

--ben