Re: Air Force abandoning Ada

Re: Air Force abandoning Ada

[Blissful]

 Interesting ideas -- I read the same article but if USAF
is abandoning Ada, why is is spending big bucks to upgrade
the B-1B processors and to convert our current mish mash
of JOVIAL/AP-101F avionics software to Ada?

Although I think that Ada needs a really good, really cheap
"Borland" compiler to have any chance at becoming mainstream,
I don't think we can sound the death nell just yet.

Vern Bliss
Boeing B-1B software engineer

Re: Air Force abandoning Ada

[John B. Matthews]

In article <4iabm5$4gf@rational.rational.com>, gabrielb@rational.com (Gabriel Bereny) writes:
> Peter Hermann (ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
> : Greg is back.
> 
> He's been away learning about metaphors.
> 
>> the kiss of death for Ada in the Air Force, and probably the
>> trumpet call to see which of the branches can abandon Ada the 
>> quickest.
> 
> I guess he didn't make it as far as the admonition against mixing 
> them.

In this case, "trumpet" clearly refers to the Last Trump of
Judgement Day, a widely held metaphysical sequiter of death.
The metephor is thus apt, if not strictly "rational" :-)

John