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: 28 Jul 93 17:18:31 GMT From: rational.com!geneo@uunet.uu.net (Gene Ouye) Subject: Re: Office Naval Research seemingly not interested in Ada Message-ID: <1993Jul28.171831.14735@rational.com> List-Id: Chris Warack (cwarack@kirk.usafa.af.mil) wrote: : In article , 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) (301) 897-4014