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: 1 Aug 93 23:00:23 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!shilling@ucbvax.Berke ley.EDU (Keith Shillington) Subject: Re: Are 'best' universities being targeted Message-ID: <1993Aug01.230023.17557@source.asset.com> List-Id: In article srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: > >Why make students do something the DoD refuses to do? ... > ... >So don't ask students to do what the DoD doesn't want to do. Greg! You're so ramped up on the DoD being bad and evil (which it may well be) you've neglected the segment of industry that has a ghost of a chance of actually making a difference (read progress) in the world of software. You know full well that NOTHING the DoD does is optimized for cost or profitability, as that is not their driving motivation; so writing "good" software is not in their immediate interest (hence the 'Mandate'). If our favorite language (Ada in case anyone got lost in the newsgroups) is to be a long lived success is it up to the Honeywells, Boeings, CAE-Links and bless their blue hide, IBMs (and dozens of other organizations whom I do not mean to snub) to develop process, and ultimately reusable (Ada) software. It is up to us educators to build the structure of thinking in the next wave of creators. So Greg, please either take your tongue out of your cheek, or chomp down, hard. Yours most respectfully: -- Keith Shillington /---------\ "No matter where you go, email: shilling@source.ASSET.com /=======\ There you are." voice: (619) 944-5134 /_____\ -- Buckaroo Banzaii fax : (619) 944-7089 | | office: (301) 924-0050