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From: Robert Love <rblove@airmail.net>
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Subject: Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:05:31 -0000
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In <1135290419.885448.129100@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Gene wrote:
> Please don't tar the Air Force.  E.g. some of the strongest Ada
> proponents in the world work and the US Air Force Academy.  They are
> the authors of AdaGIDE the .NET port, and other excellent work.  Many,
> many Air Force personnel are smart on Ada.  I'm sure they'd be 
> appalled by the above.

I don't believe it will have any effect but when I wrote the Secretary I 
suggested that the AF Academy's experts conduct an investigation of why 
the software was a failure.   I'm sure it is outside the role of the 
Academy and my letter will be lost in a sea of assitants but I do know 
that the Academy is warm on Ada.