Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?

[Bob Crispen <bob.crispen@BOEING.COM>]

Joe Gwinn wrote:

>I guess I am not convinced that freeware, although certainly useful, is
>anything I would normally choose to bet my project on.  Gnu C seems to be
>the sole exception.  And, development of industrial-strength tool suites
>requires industrial-strength cashflow.

There are times in one's professional life when the problem is vastly
simplified by knowing the answer beforehand.  This seems to be the case
here.

Anyone who could write the first two sentences one right after the other
has already decided not to use Ada and is merely attempting to get us to
build a case for him.  And anyone who could write the third sentence just
plain wasn't paying attention to what other people said the first time he
tried to make that point.

It might be observed that coming into an Ada programming language discussion
group and trying to educe data that will support one's own ill-founded
antipathy toward Ada, without the slightest possibility of changing one's
own mind on the subject, is discourteous and leaves one's values and conduct
open to question.
--
Bob Crispen
bob.crispen@boeing.com
Speaking for myself, not my company