Re: Open comment to Ted Holden

[micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!wupost!uwm.edu!ogicse!henson!hearne@bloom-bea con.mit.edu (Jim Hearne)]

jonesm@nic.cerf.net (Matthew Jones) writes:

>And for my 2 cents.

>I think that comparing carrying commercial GPS equipment into the desert

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>To me that largest problem with Ada is that it doesn't have a large
>customer base. So the Ada Compiler/development systems are not checked
>out as well as its commerial counterparts. How many beta test sites
       
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>Matthew Jones
>jonesm@cerf.net

There is an obvious implicate to this view: the DOD should simply
buy Ada compilers for universities to increase the volume of tests
the compilers are subjected to.   This would be much cheaper than
paying defense industry rates for the same thing and would serve
a useful educational purpose also.


				James Hearne
				Computer Science Department
				Western Washington University
				Bellingham, WA  98225