Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance

[tmoran@acm.org]

>Let me quote from the December 19th "Space News" article entitled
>...
>is a software design that was literally invented around the time DOS was
>invented.  DOS is no longer even being talked about nor should Ada be,
>...
>  The Air Force hopes to use a more modern language like C+ (yes, they
  Of course "The C Programming Language" was published 5 years before the
Ada 83 RM, and Ada 95, like C++, is about 10 years old.  Perhaps for this
real-time, satellite based anti-missile system he means Microsoft's .NET
language, C#.  Does "Space News" print letters to the editor with factual
corrections?  Pointing out the ignorance of someone in authority is always
amusing.
  But could it possibly be that this fellow just wants to give a new
contract to some big contributor, er, company to postpone the demise of
SBIRS till after he has moved elsewhere?