Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3d5cfa8e.16958234@news.demon.co.uk>...

> If you go to your [large] company's accountat and say 
> "there you go,
> I've spent $1000 on software" and they say, "well, where 
> is it?" and
> you say "it's a file on my PC" what do you think they're 
> going to say
> to that?

Please don't invent problems where none exist. This is
almost never a problem in practice. One or two times out
of hundreds of customers, we have had to ship a box with
a CD ROM, and indeed now we always ship a box with a 
CD ROM, but not because of any accountants, but rather
we think people like to have a nice set of printer manuals
and a box!

Going back to accountants. Suppose you work for an airline
and you tell the accountant that you have just signed a
1.7 million dollar order for maintenance of front wing
doohickeys, do you think the accountant is concerned there
is no physical box. Of course not :-)

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies