Re: A very successful Ada marketing disaster

[seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)]

In article <1993Sep8.105152.26544@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
 writes:
>In article <SRCTRAN.93Sep8102856@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
 Aharonian) writes:
>
>>   Given that ARPA is spending $100 million to help support the commercial
>>CAD industry to reinforce that infrastructure to meet DoD needs, while no
>>one is willing to spend a similar amount on reinforcing Ada...
>
>But the DoD has spent at least that much on "reinforcing" Ada.  What
>about ALS, AIE, ALS/N, much of the STARS stuff, and so on?

Oh, yeah, these are all great products :-)
>
>Happily, the commercial CAD industry is probably too large to be
>suffocated, even by $100 million of government "reinforcement".  Ada,
>alas, was caught in her cradle.

I always love Robert's dry English humor.

SometimesI think the best thing the government could do for Ada is get the
hell out of the way.

Mike Feldman