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From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Robert Munck)
Subject: Re: DII COE bars Ada -> Java compilation
Date: 2000/04/19
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On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 00:48:11 GMT, Richard D Riehle
<laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>The DII policy [makers] were probably coached by someone
> from Sun or Microsoft.

Both are possible. Note, however, that the ruling could have been
intended to be pro-Java, anti-Ada, or anti-C++.  This introduces
a wide array of possible advocates of the rule both inside and
outside the DoD.  Given what I know of DISA and the COE, my
bet would be MITRE.

Note that DoD has all of the mechanism in place that it needs to
mandate (ahem) use of a standard language compiling to the
JVM.  By choosing instead a fad language that is not a standard
(and unlikely ever to be), they are making a very short-sighted
decision.

Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC