From: jkrell@nswc.navy.mil (James Krell)
Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?
Date: 1996/06/10
Date: 1996-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Jun10.114827.26046@relay.nswc.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com
In article <4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com>, byersmp@erols.com says...
>
>I work for a large defense contractor developing standard
>transportation systems for the US Army. I am currently working in C,
>but I am indebted to Ada and a few good Ada books for taking me from a
>COBOL/4GL coder to a pretty fair software engineer. Another system
>within our project developes for MS-DOS Character mode using Ada and
>AdaSage. The user community is asking for a GUI version running under
>Windows NT. They are also suggesting a language other than Ada
>because it is there understanding that "the Ada mandate has been
>lifted". Do they know something I don't know? Who is responsible for
>deciding whether the Ada mandate stays in place?
>
Whether or not the Ada mandate stays in place is irrelevant. In general,
the mandate is ignored throughout the Dod. You can pretty much write
the code in whatever you wish to.
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1996-05-08 0:00 Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Howard Dodson
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Thomas C. Timberlake
1996-05-08 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
[not found] ` <31913863.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Roy M. Bell
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Peggy Byers
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-09 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` James Krell [this message]
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Carl Bowman
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <31DD5234.11CB@thomsoft.com>
1996-07-18 0:00 ` Front Ends (was: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?) Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Jon S Anthony
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Front Ends (was: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?) Jon S Anthony
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1996-06-14 0:00 Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Mark Bell
1996-06-14 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-17 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-21 0:00 Bob Crispen
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-07-10 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-10 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Brad Balfour
1996-07-11 0:00 ` James Rhodes
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Jim Chelini
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] <nhd91w250f.fsf@paralysys>
1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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