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: 12 Dec 92 00:25:23 GMT From: pattis@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) Subject: IBM & Air Traffic Control Message-ID: <1992Dec12.002523.27592@beaver.cs.washington.edu> List-Id: In today's NYT business section, there was an article about the government threatening to cancel a $3.8 billion contract with IBM to overhaul the air traffic control system. It says "Because of a software foul-up, the contract with the FAA has already suffered an 18 month delay...The problems involve testing and integrating software in what is called the initial sector suite system..." This seems like a very large and embarasing screwup. Anyone know more about the project. I thought the air traffic control stuff was being done "mostly" in Ada; if not, anyone know what language was used. Even better, anyone know what is "really" behind the delay. Rich Pattis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard E. Pattis "Programming languages are like Department of Computer Science pizzas - they come in only "too" and Engineering sizes: too big and too small."