Re: The actual quote from the Post AAS article

[pole@evb.com (Tom Pole)]

In article <1no3fbINN3h7@umbc4.umbc.edu> berman@umbc.edu (Mike Berman) writes:
>
>There have been a few posts referring to the 8 March Washington Post
>article, "Out-of-Control Contract - How IBM's Effort to Modernize FAA's
>Air Traffic Monitoring System Went Awry". 
>
>Out of a several hundred word (~60 column inch) article, Ada is mentioned
>directly in one paragraph only:
>
>	"Adding a further level of complexity was the
>	government's insistence that the entire project be done using a
>	new computer language called Ada. The federal government was
>	attempting to control a muddle of incompatible software
>	languages by standardizing, but many programmers had to learn
>	the exotic language from scratch."
>
>"... new ..."? "... exotic ..."?!?

... other good stuff deleted.

>
>Any attempt to assert, based on the information in this article, that Ada
>is the sole reason for failure, or even a major contributing factor, is
>absurd. This project would have failed using any implementation
>language.
>

The point is that these problems were known to be the major culprits
in the "software crises" and Ada was supposed to solve them.

		Thomas

>
>-- 
>Mike Berman
>University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Fastrak Training, Inc.
>berman@umbc.edu					(301)924-0050


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Thomas Pole