From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,936b98ceff0d9f3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-04 05:30:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: One language environment don't have future Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:29:55 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1044365406 30346 137.194.161.2 (4 Feb 2003 13:30:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:30:06 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: One language environment don't have future Thread-Index: AcLMRHpm9pQ63q61TvKpaiIQKJRWNQAC5hrw X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2003 13:29:55.0826 (UTC) FILETIME=[81955520:01C2CC51] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33763 Date: 2003-02-04T08:29:55-05:00 -----Original Message----- From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol+news@pvv.org] > Besides how will your VB programmer be able to change a part of a > project written in C++/Ada/whatever unless he also learns this = language? This is an interesting point that I meant to comment on. It leads to multiple points of failure. The project would have to be modularized. But this would only compartmentalize the failure point. If you lost your expert in any area, there would definitely be down time, learning curves, etc. We have this problem on our current project. It was built with Ada, Delphi, and C++. Another related system used to build messages to send to it, was built using M$ VB. To maintain it, you need someone who = knows each language fairly well. Otherwise, you could end up with kludged updates in the future. Frank