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From: jamwahl@badlands.nodak.edu (Jim)
Subject: Re: Future of Ada?
Date: 1999/01/14
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Matthew,
Thank you very much for an intelligent and informative response.

	-Jim

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 18:18:19 GMT, Matthew Heaney
<matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:

>jamwahl@badlands.nodak.edu (Jim) writes:
>
>> I am just wondering what those who frequent this news group think
>> about the future of Ada.  I've heard a lot of talk that Ada is kind of
>> dying out and that not even the military is using it any more.  Any
>> comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
>You may be thinking of the US DoD's change in policy wrt contracting
>software intensive systems.  Way back when, the government had a
>putative rule that all software for weapons systems had to be written in
>Ada.  This policy is sometimes refered to as the "Ada mandate."
>
>However, the government is moving to
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