Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada

[mdisea!mothost!schbbs!tigger!tannen@uunet.uu.net (David Tannen x8273)]

Greg,

You missed my point entirely.  Most of your examples had to do with the loss of
money - a small loss compared to human lives or a whole planet.

DoD systems must be even more fault tolerant than most of the systems built by
the rest of the world.  Greg, please name one system you know about that if it
fails could cause the loss of life (on a large scale) or even the meltdown of
the planet.

As for your comment on DoD comms systems and Grenada.  I know people who were
there and folks who built these systems.  The reason they did not work has more
to do with how equipment is procurred by the DoD than Ada.  Each service (Army,
Navy and Air Force) is always off working in isolation or in competition for 
limited $s.  They rarely talk to each other about what they are doing (might
loss their edge w/Congress or the President for those ever shrinking $s).  So
the services often end up with systems that don't work together.

Gee, isn't that why Ada was developed in the first place, to eliminate all the
different languages being used by the DoD.

David Tannen
tannen@tigger.geg.mot.com