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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/05/13 Message-ID: <319734C3.167EB0E7@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 154574859 references: <4mq7mg$8hs@jake.probe.net> <31913863.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <3192c204.110870781@news.interramp.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Munck wrote: > > On Wed, 08 May 1996 20:12:19 -0400, Theodore E. Dennison > wrote: > >I just read through the descripion of their review. Important points: > > o They seem to be taking a fair amount of care to prevent the > > committee from being "stacked" one way or the other. > > Except, of course, that there's hardly anyone on the committee > who has come within a mile of developing applications software > for the DoD in the last decade. They lean heavily toward university I was all set to argue with you, until I got to this paragraph - > For example, this group is apt to be quite taken with the > wonderful logic of COTS and know nothing about the practical > nightmares of frequent package, OS, and platform upgrades, > user "support," and vendor instability. You could not have described my current hell more succintly. Except you left out hardware/hardware and hardware/software compatability issues. And hardware/hardware/software compatability, and ... (Aieeeee!) -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |