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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,6ff06ceb3844ef49
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-20 18:54:45 PST
Path: 
 bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!val
From: val@cs.weber.edu (Val Kartchner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada NEWS -- Week Ending 14 Oct 1994
Date: 20 Oct 1994 23:41:06 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
Message-ID: <386v6i$idg@u.cc.utah.edu>
References: <1994Oct19.175412.27378@sei.cmu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu
Date: 1994-10-20T23:41:06+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <1994Oct19.175412.27378@sei.cmu.edu>,
Ada Information Clearinghouse <adanews@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu> wrote:
>*****************************************************************
>                 DISA DIRECTOR GUNG-HO FOR Ada!
>*****************************************************************
[....]
>     He stressed that the projects are not intended to be "shoot-
>outs," pitting Ada against the two other popular DoD languages, C
>and C++.  Instead, he wants the projects to generate scientific
>results detailing the benefits of Ada.  

Is it really sound to decide the outcome then create the datum to
support the conclusion of the study?  Sound or not, this is how
Ada studies have been (See "Ada and C++: Business Case Analysis")
and are still being conducted.

It reminds me of how another industry conducts studies.  Even
today the CEO's of that industry can pronounce authoritatively
(and with a straight face) that cigarettes do *not* cause cancer,
and we have the (internally generated) studies to prove it!

-- 
|================= #include <stddisclaimer.h> ================/// KB7VBF/P11 =|
| "AMIGA: The computer for the creative mind" (tm) Commodore /// Weber State  |
| "Macintosh: The computer for the rest of us"(tm) Apple \\\///   University  |
|=== "I think, therefore I AMiga" -- val@cs.weber.edu ====\///= Ogden UT USA =|