From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?
Date: 1996/06/17
Date: 1996-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31C5547D.446B9B3D@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4prtdi$3gs@michp1.redstone.army.mil
Kevin J. Weise wrote:
>
> Those are all very good questions to ask; and all points are well taken. But it
> doesn't seem to help weed out one of the most insidious dodges to the use of Ada
> that I've seen, which is:
>
> While chasing project X, implement as much of the project according to req'ts
> as known at the time under the guise of IR&D, using language Y (or Y++).
The dodge isn't the activity you describe, but the people performing it. If COTS
were outlawed, they would just find another excuse. Going after the excuse itself
is like trying to pull weeds by hand; for every one you pull up, six more are
sprouting up elsewhere.
--
T.E.D.
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1996-06-14 0:00 Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Mark Bell
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Kevin J. Weise
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison [this message]
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
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1996-07-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1996-06-21 0:00 Bob Crispen
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-06-30 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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1996-07-10 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-10 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Brad Balfour
1996-07-11 0:00 ` James Rhodes
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Jim Chelini
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-14 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-05-08 0:00 Howard Dodson
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Thomas C. Timberlake
1996-05-08 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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1996-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-05-14 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-05-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-06-03 0:00 ` Roy M. Bell
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Peggy Byers
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-09 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-10 0:00 ` James Krell
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Michael Levasseur
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-06-25 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Carl Bowman
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-06-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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