Re: Office Naval Research seemingly not interested in Ada

[rational.com!geneo@uunet.uu.net (Gene Ouye)]

Chris Warack <sys mgr> (cwarack@kirk.usafa.af.mil) wrote:
: In article <SRCTRAN.93Jul27202554@world.std.com>, srctran@world.std.com (Greg
ory Aharonian) writes:
: |> No! No! No!  The Ada Mandate applies to all DoD software activities,
:                                                             ^----------

: Is the word in the law really activities or something else?  (What's an
: activity?)  If it says "development" or "acquisition" or is tied to certain
: kinds of money, then perhaps the basic research guys are off scott free.

The exact wording of the law is:

	"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after June 1,
	 1991, all Department of Defense software shall be written
	 in the programming language Ada, in the absence of special
	 exemption by an official designated by the Secretary of
	 Defense."

The last I heard, "all" meant all.  I guess technically Greg is wrong
because it doesn't say "software activities", it just says _all_  DoD
software _shall_ be written in Ada (notwithstanding blah, blah, blah,
and in the absence of special exemption, blah, blah, blah).

Gene Ouye (geneo@rational.com)
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