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From: gary@intrepid.com (Gary Funck)
Subject: Re: The Economist says: US Military software in 8th place
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:07:06 GMT
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Date: 1993-03-23T16:07:06+00:00
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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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