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: Ken Garlington Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/17 Message-ID: <31C57FB5.1D04@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 160694111 references: <4mq7mg$8hs@jake.probe.net> <4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com> <1996Jun10.114827.26046@relay.nswc.navy.mil> <4pk5sm$i7k@gde.GDEsystems.COM> <31BEC408.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <4ppb89$gbq@gde.GDEsystems.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 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Michael Levasseur wrote: > The commercial world has now paired the major languages > down to a handfull. Could you list this "handful"? From what I read in the commercial magazines, the list of languages is constantly _growing_. What's more, very few languages in the commericial world are disappering (e.g., COBOL and FORTRAN are still going strong, and variations of both continue to be introduced). > It is now time to drop the Ada Mandate! If > Ada is as strong as everyone says, clearly it will thrive and survive. > I personnally believe that if that "Ada Mandate" was removed, > Ada would take it's place in history like Jovial, Pascal, and Atlas... You mean, yet another language for DoD to maintain, along with Objective-C, Visual Basic, Concurrent-Visual-C++, etc. etc.? I don't see how this helps... > These are just my humble opinion from an Ada Programmer, yes I'm > an Ada programmer!!! Unfortunately, the Ada policy is designed to address non-programmer concerns, like language proliferation. That's why it's generally uninteresting to talk about the technical strengths of Ada vs. {whatever} when discussing changes to Ada policy. The discussion is in the wrong domain! -- LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"