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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Legislative Mandate for Ada
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Date: 15 Dec 90 17:02:22 GMT
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In article <9700@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>
>"shall be written" - does this mean new software or does it mean we have
>to convert the hundreds of millions of lines of Cobol to Ada?  We may be
Well, I've been reading Ada stuff for about 10 years, and never saw even
a hint that old systems were to be converted to Ada just for the hell of it.
>
>If the percentage doesn't approach 100 fast enough then they will mandate
>mindless translations.
Oh, Lord - I hope not! Seriously, I don't have a lot of inside information,
but I really don't think this is what it's about. Do you have any serious
info suggesting this mindlessness? (I realize that we're all cynics in this
business, but fact and cynicism shouldn't be confused. Got facts?)
>
Mike Feldman