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From: Per Sandberg <persan.sandberg@gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:58:22 AM UTC+1, Robert Love wrote:
> On 2012-03-20 12:54:38 +0000, tonyg said:
> 
> > I am currently fending off an attempt to have my project converted from 
> > ADA to some un named monstrosity of a language. Reasons listed are ADA 
> > is archaic, programmers can not be found, it takes too long to develop 
> > blah blah list goes on. Anyone got any glossy monosyllabillic advocacy 
> > documents hopefully in an entertaining cartoon format?
> 
> Good luck.  I'm currently watching NASA throw away many 100K sloc of 
> Ada that's worked for 10 years to replace it with C++.  It's being done 
> in the name of preparing for the future but really, I think it's a jobs 
> program, sad to say.  The C++ guys sometimes sneer at Ada but we find 
> it funny that they  haven't fully comprehended the scope of the problem 
>  yet.  I'm sure they'll get there eventually but as tax payers (if 
> you're US) it's very frustrating.

And some roumurs says: Thare are still small teams of programmers doing backports of some of the NASA C/C++ SW to Ada again, and they are finding "intresting" bugs that are repored back to NASA again.