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From: jkrell@nswc.navy.mil (James Krell)
Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?
Date: 1996/06/10
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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.