Re: TOOLS USA Final program

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!vand@ucbvax .Berkeley.EDU (Laurence VanDolsen)]

In article <1993May28.013005.8296@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael 
Feldman) writes:
>
>I had the misfortune to meet with some DoD types a while ago; 

>The DoD types were about to commit to a design and language for a C3 system, 
>more-or-less in that order, but they were VERY concerned about the language.
>They were basically trying to figure out how much trouble it would be to
>get a waiver or otherwise circumvent the Mandate. They didn't have a clue
>to their design yet, though, except that they'd been told that OO was a
>Good Thing.
>
>Oh - they asked me whether it was true that Ada did not support data 
>abstraction and information hiding. And they'll very soon be buying one of
>tomorrow's C3 systems. We're in deep doo-doo, sports fans.
>
Ah yes, and they will probably require SEI CMM Level 5 as a minimum
requirement to bid.   They will put in a key personnel requirement that
says that the program manager, the chief engineer, the software manager,
and each of the software technical leads shall have a minimum of twenty
years experience in developing large real-time systems in Ada.  In the
maintainability section of the specification they will require the
capablity to apply hexadecimal patches to the fielded software.  Ain't
it fun to deal with sophisticated customers?  :-)