From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8264dac98bc604d8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-12 09:05:10 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!widget!pole From: pole@evb.com (Tom Pole) Subject: Re: The actual quote from the Post AAS article Message-ID: <1993Mar12.161548.6286@evb.com> Organization: EVB Software Engineering, Inc. References: <1no3fbINN3h7@umbc4.umbc.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 16:15:48 GMT Date: 1993-03-12T16:15:48+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Thomas Pole