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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/12
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In article <36E96E42.26AD@sandia.gov>, Gordon Dodrill <gjdodri@sandia.gov> writes:

> However, we are still forced to go with the project leader's
> decision.

There must be a decision-making process in any environment, and
the one that hurts you now may be of help if you get assigned
as project leader of something that might otherwise avoid Ada.

> Even though the larger project has dropped Ada, there is a 
> smaller (about 5 persons) project that is still committed to 
> the use of Ada.  About 70% of my time is commited to this 
> project, so we still have a foot in the door for the future, 
> and I will continue to campaign for Ada.

You have an excellent opportunity for such a campaign, if you
can bring the smaller project in on time and under budget. If
the larger group had not tried C++, there would be no basis for
comparison.

Larry Kilgallen