From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: How many different processors do you use?
Date: 1999/06/28
Date: 1999-06-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37777F80.E8C5B7CC@pwfl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7l6kpq$404$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> In article <37739338.761297047@news.bellglobal.com>,
> pitchl@tdbank.ca wrote:
> > Could not the "Defense Contractor" billing mindset also figure
> into this?
> > Since Ada was/is the required language for DOD work, it might
> suffer from
> > the same inflationary pricing that introduced multi-hundred
> dollar toilet seats
> > to the DOD.
>
> No ...
>
Wellll..... I'm basically with you, but there is this caveat: The DoD
buys lots of stuff that is highly customized, really low production run
- maybe even one of a kind. In that kind of market, you expect to pay
through the nose to get it. In some ways Ada started out in that
position. It was a custom designed language with an immediate market of
defense contractors who couldn't wriggle out of The Mandate. That wasn't
a lot of people, so it was a custom built, short production run product.
Somebody was going to pay for all that engineering and it can't be the
vendor. Obviously, nobody became the "Bill Gates Of Ada Compilers" so it
doesn't look like anybody was bilking the government out of millions -
it must have been pretty close to the bone.
MDC
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1999-06-08 0:00 ` How many different processors do you use? muddy_buddy
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-11 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1999-06-11 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-06-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-10 0:00 ` muddy_buddy
1999-06-10 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-10 0:00 ` rawcswi
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` rawcswi
1999-06-20 0:00 ` Eric Roesinger
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Something doesn't compute here (was Re: How many different processors do you use?) David Kristola
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Prince
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Elizabeth D Rather
1999-06-09 0:00 ` How many different processors do you use? Matt Cox
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Jon Kirwan
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Ed Avis
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Jon Kirwan
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Ada95 (was: How many different processors do you use?) Markus Kuhn
1999-06-09 0:00 ` How many different processors do you use? dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-06-10 0:00 ` John Kodis
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-06-09 0:00 ` martin lytz
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
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1999-06-11 0:00 ` fraser
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-11 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-06-10 0:00 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-11 0:00 ` Dave Hansen
1999-06-11 0:00 ` martin lytz
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Roger Espel Llima
1999-06-12 0:00 ` markh
1999-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-13 0:00 ` markh
1999-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-25 0:00 ` Lew Pitcher
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Michael A. Covington
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-06-29 0:00 ` Michael A. Covington
1999-06-29 0:00 ` Richard Kettlewell
1999-06-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-07-08 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-07-09 0:00 ` no-one
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-12 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-26 0:00 ` Everett M. Greene
1999-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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