Re: Waivers: who gives them and why

[sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!freedom.msfc.nasa.gov!robichau@hplabs.hpl.h p.com (Paul Robichaux)]

In my original article <1991Nov26.174809.7550@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov>,
I wrote:

>Here at Marshall, we are developing a workstation-based payload
>monitoring and control system for which draft requirements have
>already been written.

>Despite the NASA mandate which requires all new systems to be written
>in Ada (cf. all the Space Station code), we are planning this one in
>C. NASA tells us that a waiver has been applied for- in 1987- but is
>still pending.

Frank McGarry from Goddard was kind enough to point out my mistake
above: while the Space Station project is currently required to use
Ada, other NASA programs are *not*. There is *NO* NASA-wide
requirement to use Ada; thus, waivers allowing use of other languages
are unnecessary.

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused out in Ada-land.

Red-faced,
-Paul
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