Re: Ada scandal makes front page of Wash. Post business section

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In article <EMERY.93Mar12101548@dr_no.mitre.org>, emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:
*<Normally I don't respond to Ted's ravings, but there's a point I'd
* like to make here.>

*One of the interesting things we've noticed over the last few years as
*our contractors started using Ada is that it's easier to spot
*disasters.  It used to be that we wouldn't discover that a program was
*totally screwed up until close to delivery.  Now, we can tell pretty
*early into the program when it won't make it.  We still don't know
*what to do about it, but at least the problems become visible earlier.

You mean like when a prototype due in 1990 is still a year out  (so they
say) in 1993?  Can you imagine where we might be (actually, in a Japanese
coal mine in West Virginia) had we had that sort of fast recovery time for
projects in 1941?

It gets easier to spot disasters when there are more of them to spot...
you get more practice at it.  People watching Ada disasters should be
getting awfully good at spotting disasters by now.



-- 
Ted Holden
HTE