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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Another One Bites the Dust!
Date: 29 Oct 1994 18:28:23 -0500
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Date: 1994-10-29T18:28:23-05:00
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In article <9410281126.AA08984@eurocontrol.de>,
Bob Wells #402  <wel@EUROCONTROL.DE> wrote:
>I've just heard that the Swedish military is not going to proceed
>with an Ada version of the tactical terminal that they had ordered.
>
>[snip]
>The schedule was such that the delivery of the prototype, upgraded
>to the new Swedish spec. but also using SDL and C, was due for
>evaluation in August this year. It turns out that the prototype
>worked so well that the Swedes have said not to bother with the Ada
>version, they are happy with the performance of the SDL/C version!

I, for one, am glad they didn't convert it into Ada.  The issue
appears (to me) to be cost.  And this appears to be a genuine case of
where it would be more costly to use Ada.  Remember, not _every_
situation calls for Ada, even when it might appear so.  

(No, I haven't turned into a "Pod Person" like from "Invasion of the
Body Snatchers" :-)


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