Re: Ada9X, DRAGOON, etc.

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1993Feb26.184152.10231@sei.cmu.edu> wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller) writes:
>In article <SRCTRAN.93Feb26102644@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
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>>    But Mike's statements implicitly contradict each other and portend
>>a sad future for Ada9X - that it will be less accepted in the non-mandated
>>world than Ada83.  I do not believe that the current Ada vendors will be
>>able to change their ways.  Even now, one of them, Rational, is gradually
>>moving away from the Ada world to the C++ world (as evidenced by the ads
>>with Grady Booch's smiling face pushing the C++ version of the Booch
>>components).
>>
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>Your claim that Rational is moving away from Ada is false.  You observed
>Rational expanding into the C++ domain (which is a good thing) and
>concluded a weakening in the Ada domain.  Nothing is further from the truth.
Time will tell.

>Also, keep in mind, Grady's smiling face pushing conferences like
>"C++ by Design" does not imply Rational is throwing their hands up
>on Ada.  Grady doesn't always speak for Rational.  
IMHO, Grady needs to make more of a distinction between his responsibilities
for Rational and the other things he does. If I recall, the C++ By Design"
"conference" (actually I think it was more like an expensive seminar)
gave his affiliation as Rational. Under those circumstances, we can assume
safely that he was speaking for his employee. If Grady was free-lancing
here, his affiliation should not have been given as Rational.

Just my 2 cents. I have the same problem sometimes, by the way.

Mike Feldman
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>>Greg Aharonian
>>Source Translation & Optimization
>>"Fund me or flame me - anything else is an insult"
>>-- 
>
>OK, I guess it was a flame :-)
>
>dgw
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