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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: fd7c9,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gidfd7c9,public X-Google-Thread: 1094ba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1094ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Robert Munck) Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/13 Message-ID: <344285e6.78444776@news.mindspring.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 280260486 References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <3441B496.41C6@lmco.com> X-Server-Date: 13 Oct 1997 20:41:42 GMT Reply-To: munck@acm.org Organization: Mill Creek Systems LC Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.fortran Date: 1997-10-13T20:41:42+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:41:42 -0600, Jack Rudd wrote: >Gary L. Scott wrote: >> >> Oh the horror stories about Ada just about anyone in the defense >> industry could tell you...(inefficiency, bloat, development delays, >> budget overruns)... >... >Problems along the above lines helped get a very large defense >project cancelled that was near and dear to me. I may never >forgive the folks who pushed OO in Ada on that project. Ada turned out to be an excellent scapegoat for the many management failures that are found in software projects in general and large projects done by large contractors for the DoD in particular. It will be interesting to see what gets the blame now that "you don't have Ada to kick around anymore." I'll bet that it's Microsoft and/or Sun. Bob Munck Mill Creek Systems LC