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: 14 Dec 92 15:58:11 GMT From: aio!news@tmc.edu Subject: Re: IBM & Air Traffic Control Message-ID: <1992Dec14.155811.9958@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> List-Id: In article <1992Dec12.002523.27592@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes: > >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. Unfortuantely this will probably give the Chicken Littles of Ada another reason for Ada "falling", I mean, "failing" even though it is not a language problem. There are other factors involved such as the lack of a stable development environment and the transition to yet another IBM platform in the middle of development. Given any project in any language, this would play havoc on any schedule. > >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." > ***************************************************************** John R. Cobarruvias, Texas A&M Class of '78, NASA Johnson Space Center Houston Tx. (713)483-9357 "And to think..................I hesitated" (Hellraiser II) *****************************************************************