From: Robert Love <rblove@airmail.net>
Subject: Re: A scapegoat once again :(
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 21:45:24 -0500
Date: 2011-05-20T21:45:24-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2011052021452420314-rblove@airmailnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9b0df7c4-e934-44ad-b388-19174df51343@r20g2000yqd.googlegroups.com
On 2011-05-20 10:13:38 -0500, Britt Snodgrass said:
> Seen on DailyTech today:
>
> http://www.dailytech.com/F22+Upgrades+Over+Budget+and+Behind+Schedule+F35+May+Cost+1T+in+Operating+Costs/article21692.htm
"The
>
> cause of the delay in delivery stems from the programming
> language used called Ada. The Ada language was once a DoD standard,
> but the use of the language has waned in the last 15 years. Analyst
> Loren Thompson from the Lexington Institute said, "It tends to impede
> quick upgrades to the system to which it is the base software."
>
> It’s really sad and disturbing to read such an incorrect and
> uninformed statement. How could Ada "impede quick upgrades" unless
> they really mean that the coders they've been hiring recently are
> intimidated by compiler warnings.
>
> - Britt
And by "once again" are you refering to the Secretary of the Air Force
being told that Ada delayed SBIRS High by LM management?
Or is there some other horror story.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 15:13 A scapegoat once again :( Britt Snodgrass
2011-05-20 15:22 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-05-20 17:00 ` Shark8
2011-06-01 16:40 ` jonathan
2011-05-20 15:31 ` jonathan
2011-05-20 16:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20 15:44 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-05-20 15:59 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-05-20 16:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-20 17:56 ` Phil Clayton
2011-05-21 8:06 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-21 7:59 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-20 16:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20 16:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-20 20:47 ` Simon Wright
2011-05-21 8:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-21 2:45 ` Robert Love [this message]
2011-05-21 8:19 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-22 9:47 ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-23 11:39 ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-23 12:25 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-05-23 15:15 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-24 7:41 ` Rick
2011-05-24 10:11 ` AdaMagica
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