From: gary@intrepid.com (Gary Funck)
Subject: Re: The Economist says: US Military software in 8th place
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:07:06 GMT
Date: 1993-03-23T16:07:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Mar23.160706.22329@intrepid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SRCTRAN.93Mar23001245@world.std.com
In article <SRCTRAN.93Mar23001245@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
> ...
> TABLE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRODUCTIVITY (1991)
>
> MIS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE MILITARY SOFTWARE
>
>1 America Japan France
>2 France America Israel
>3 Britain Germany South Korea
>4 Canada France Britain
>5 Switzerland Britain Germany
>6 Germany India Sweden
>7 Japan Taiwan Italy
>8 Norway South Korea AMERICA
>9 Sweden Holland Brazil
>10 India Sweden Egypt
>
France, Germany, Sweden, and Britain all use Ada much more extensively
than the US. They also seem somehow more serious than the US at
building truly reliable/useable things. And they seem more
comfortable with Ada. Perhaps their early adoption of Algol,
followed by Pascal laid the groundwork.
So if the problem isn't Ada, then what is the problem?
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1993-03-23 5:12 The Economist says: US Military software in 8th place Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-23 9:56 ` Christophe Bruniau
1993-03-24 15:57 ` Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-23 16:07 ` Gary Funck [this message]
1993-03-23 21:54 ` Alex Blakemore
1993-03-25 0:06 ` David Emery
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