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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cebec2c33ffff82 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Byron B. Kauffman" Subject: Re: AJPO is still clueless about the reality of DoD Ada rejection Date: 1996/03/18 Message-ID: <314D8721.7E36@lfwc.lockheed.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143042342 references: <314D2FA6.24D4@lfwc.lockheed.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ken, you know we're both on the same side, BUT you and I both know of cases where more money was spent (in manhours) justifying a Ada waiver than would have been used if they had just done the Ada like good little boys and girls. Case in point, a few years ago General Dynamics laid off a few hundred Ada folks (thank you, Dick Cheney), while the VERY NEXT WEEK other avionics-related departments were trying to justify an Ada waiver because they didn't have anyone with Ada experience!!! Personally, that news didn't sit very well with me while I was standing in the unemployment line with some very good engineers, and may have permanently effected my opinion of anti-Ada (alias gutless weenies) management types... Please forgive me, but it's a rainy Monday morning and my alma mater got their butts kicked in the NCAAs.