From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 27 Nov 91 18:27:36 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!freedom.msfc.nasa.gov!robichau@hplabs.hpl.h p.com (Paul Robichaux) Subject: Re: Waivers: who gives them and why Message-ID: <1991Nov27.182736.23837@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov> List-Id: 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 -- -- Paul Robichaux | Disclaimer: NTI pays for my skills, not my robichau@freedom.msfc.nasa.gov | opinions. THINK BIG- life's too short to be small.