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From: Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Waiver question
Date: 1997/04/18
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Organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-04-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Consider a waiver request to use C++ in a Digital Signal Processing
application. The waiver is based essentially on these arguments:

  *  DSP engineers would rather program in C++ than Ada, since it
     makes them more valuable in the larger commericial marker. As a
     result, there is much higher attrition when DSP engineers are
     required to program in Ada, and so the development cost is higher.

  *  Most DSP tools are for C/C++. The number of DSP tools for Ada
     will shrink, given that the DoD has decided not to mandate Ada
     anymore.

  *  Most existing DSP code is in C/C++. Therefore, reuse is easier
     if the new code is also written in C++.

Anyone have a reason to think this waiver shouldn't be approved?

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