From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,707ffbf6ec9d1855 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:16:26 -0600 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance References: <20051222102521644-0600@news.airmail.net> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: <2cOdnX_dVq4nuDbeRVn-ig@comcast.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:16:26 -0600 NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.169.16.9 X-Trace: sv3-Pw6XRwehUk/JxQnYm4/yj6UFeEfMgSHbK/kCR6i5aPCn0JXIMRNO5BtHnJK1WH8P5n7BxUWQ6DiNFah!wPE44WE6GndVZqEUeIhilRVFcGeqQIva1fIvJgvGLOcEBNd4vairCv6utUgS8/uRopNBONg06Ko= X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6971 Date: 2005-12-22T16:16:26-06:00 List-Id: >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?