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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Scott Ingram Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/11 Message-ID: <36E7DC3C.8B322F23@silver.jhuapl.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 453818404 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <7c7coa$nvt$4@plug.news.pipex.net> <1999Mar11.080820.1@eisner> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@houston.jhuapl.edu X-Trace: houston.jhuapl.edu 921164860 28943 128.244.21.103 (11 Mar 1999 15:07:40 GMT) Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Mar 1999 15:07:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-11T15:07:40+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > In article <7c7coa$nvt$4@plug.news.pipex.net>, "Nick Roberts" writes: > > > I emphasise the "is not possible" because I know well that a manager will > > not be convinced in the slightest by "is not the best way" or the like, but > > will be convinced by an absolute "it WILL not work". Whether this is > > actually strictly true or not is immaterial (and you must not show it). > > Depending on your organization, an equivalently strong statement to > "it WILL not work" is "it WILL not be delivered on time". > > Larry Kilgallen Unfortunately, this probably will not work for Gordon--as the program manager has already inserted a "six month slip" just for the conversion. It might seem obvious to CLA readers that this "six month slip" is only the first of many, and I personally don't like explaining any slips at all...but a program that can tolerate six months may have an entirely different perspective. -- Scott Ingram Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory