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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,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: Paul Whittington Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/10 Message-ID: <31BC2E17.695678E2@srv.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159452283 references: <4mq7mg$8hs@jake.probe.net> <4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Whittington Engineering mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4c) Date: 1996-06-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peggy Byers wrote: > ... Another system within our project developes for MS-DOS Character > mode using Ada and AdaSage. The user community is asking for a GUI > version running under Windows NT. The AdaSAGE development at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory has released a new version of AdaSAGE that provides complete GUI development capabilities for Windows NT. Call the AdaSAGE hotline at (208)526-0656 for information on obtaining this release. > They are also suggesting a language other than Ada because it is > there understanding that "the Ada mandate has been lifted". Do they > know something I don't know? Why would the user community care what language is used to develope an application? No the Ada mandate has not been lifted, and even if it had Ada is still the best language to use for the development of applications if said applications need to be developed for the least cost, and be reliable and maintainable. See the "Home of the brave Ada programmers" WWW page for information on relative costs of Ada and C/C++ development. > Who is responsible for deciding whether the Ada mandate stays in > place? DISA