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, LOTS_OF_MONEY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/10/30 Message-ID: <345904DF.6BB3@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286027283 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation Reply-To: achrist@easystreet.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-10-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > Ada, OTOH, was designed for implementation of secure and fail-safe > > systems for the Government. It was based on Pascal concepts (very strong > > typing, modularity, consistency, etc.), but was taken much farther than > > was useful to the general world. .... There has been some (more) bad press about DOD technology lately. Computerworld recently ran a story about an Army battlefield management system of some kind that has been under development since 1980 (some kids who weren't even born when it started might do better) and still doesn't work real good. But it's only something like a $760 million debacle for the taxpayers, which, spread over 17 years, is much less than we are used to paying. Of course, it was started before Ada came down the pipe, but has Ada been used in this project at all? If so, why didn't it help? If not, whynot? Can anybody explain how the DOD keeps doing things (for 17 years!) to lower the regard of sensible people everywhere for the things (like Ada) in which they invest between wars? Al