Re: Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate.

[Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96 wrote:
> 
> Joe Gwinn <gwinn@RES.RAY.COM> writes WRT Re: fixed point vs floating point
> >And, I really don't see why it's necessary to deny the failings of
> >compilers that have been obsolete for at least a decade, for a now
> >superceeded language.  Surely we can find something more current and
> >relevant to worry about, to argue about.
> >
>     Now y'all know that Emmett Paige, et alia all stood up at the last
>     TriAda and said "No!No!No!No!No!No! Just because we dropped The
>     Mandate doesn't mean we're abandoning Ada!" One can argue forever
>     about the rationality of imposing The Mandate in the first place.
>     Once it was there, dropping it created *exactly* the perceptions
>     Mr Gwinn and *numerous* others have expressed:
> 
>     "for a now superceeded (sic) language"
> 
>     Everybody in the trenches "knows" that Ada has been abandoned,
>     that the DoD doesn't want to have anything to do with it anymore,
>     that *all* Defense software is now going to be written in C++,
>     that the Earth is flat and that next week Microsoft will be
>     announcing its new angle-trisecting software.
> <snip>

I think he meant Ada83 has been superceded by Ada95?

>     MDC

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