From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Ada in Embedded Systems Programming.
Date: 28 Oct 1994 14:24:31 GMT
Date: 1994-10-28T14:24:31+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38r1iv$102o@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1994Oct27.080032.1@corning.com
In article <1994Oct27.080032.1@corning.com>, whiting_ms@corning.com
(whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)) writes:
|> I'm beginning to think that the DOD mandate is very counter productive as a lot
|> of people seem to get their jollies from telling Uncle Sam to take a hike.
|> Maybe if DOD dropped the mandate they would actually ENCOURAGE the commercial
|> use of Ada (many commercial companies want no association at all with the
|> military) and maybe even the DOD use.
Corporations whose decisions are made with this level of maturity are
bound to be short-lived anyway, so it shouldn't matter much to anybody
which programming language they use.
--
Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com
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1994-10-27 13:00 Ada in Embedded Systems Programming whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1994-10-27 18:35 ` John M. Mills
1994-10-28 13:10 ` Ted Dennison
1994-10-31 14:03 ` John M. Mills
1994-10-28 14:24 ` Norman H. Cohen [this message]
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