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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 103376,b446a49184d9e9e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: Why it was a bad idea to drop The Mandate. Date: 1997/12/10 Message-ID: <348F14AE.7AA5@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 297043666 References: <97120812101591@psavax.pwfl.com> Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Reply-To: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-12-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96 wrote: > > Joe Gwinn 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. > I think he meant Ada83 has been superceded by Ada95? > MDC -- - Stephe