Re: The actual quote from the Post AAS article

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1993Mar12.161548.6286@evb.com> pole@evb.com (Tom Pole) writes:

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>The point is that these problems were known to be the major culprits
>in the "software crises" and Ada was supposed to solve them.
>
Ada was to provide a _common language_ for the systems in its problem
domain. In 1973 or thereabouts, there were anywhere from 200-1000
different languages in use around DoD (I guess nobody knew for sure).
A common language is surely one useful component of a solution to the
"software crisis". Only one. Anyone who said or thought Ada, by itself, would
solve anything but the language Babel, was either a fool or a liar. There
was a lot of Ada hype in the early days; my impression at the time was that
much of the hype was produced by the "training terrorists" of the day.

I know of _nobody_ with enough education and honesty to distinguish
between a programming language and methodologies, management smarts,
contracting smarts, etc., who promised that Ada would be a panacea.

Surely nobody believes that of _any_ mere programming language nowadays...

Mike Feldman