From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/20
Date: 1996-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Sep20.072744.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net
In article <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net>, Greg A Barnett <barnett@bright.net> writes:
> have one argument I can't refute and I'm looking for help. They claim
> that since the DoD is abandoning Ada (their words, not mine) and since
> there is very little commercial use of Ada in the US (again their
> words), Ada is a dead language that won't be around in 5-10 years. Does
Organizations which must maintain old code are more likely to stay
in business if that code is of a fashion that promotes maintainability.
It is true that sovereign nations can withstand much greater
economic trauma than commercial organizations, so those
organizations which subsist on government contracts may be
able to get away with inefficiencies better than the rest
of us..
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1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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