From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ca249f879dd44a18,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-22 10:18:51 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!lpb From: lpb@sei.cmu.edu (Loic Briand) Subject: Re: ARPA/SEI WWW server barely mentions Ada Message-ID: <1994Sep22.112541.16563@sei.cmu.edu> Summary: ARPA/SEI do not mention languages in general Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: Software Engineering Institute References: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:25:41 EDT Date: 1994-09-22T11:25:41-04:00 List-Id: In article , srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: > Once again we see the results of DoD toleration of lip-service being > given to Ada by members of the Mandated world. This time it is a Mosaic > server being sponsored by SEI and ARPA, located on the Internet at: > [snip] The SEI mission is not to promote Ada, but good software engineering practices in general. Software languages are only one of the many elements of software engineering. If you did not see much Ada mentioned in the server, you wont find either references to C++, SmallTalk or VB. Either software languages are not relevant is the areas covered by the server (e.g., Computer Security), or things have been done in a SW language-independent way (e.g., there is not a special CMM for Ada organizations). > But maybe I am confused. > [snip] I think so. Why would not you do some real work instead of wasting your time (that is, YOU OWN MONEY) and ours? > [snip] > Greg Aharonian > [snip] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Loic Briand lpb@sei.cmu.edu Office 3308 (412) 268-6674 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------