Re: THAAD Study on Ada Viability

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

I remember the APSE from years and years ago. My recollection was that
there were some vague documents trying to lay out requirements without
actually dictating what the system would look like. Way too fuzzy for
anybody to take it seriously. I recall there was at least one command
line interface design presented at some SIGAda - back when we were all
still using glass teletypes. (It had Ada-like syntax and was waaaay too
verbose to be typed at a command line!) I guess the whole thing died from
lack of interest and a realization that human/computer interface designs
were changing way too fast for anything to be standardized.

There are a few things that I wish *were* standardized across all
development environments. Little things like file naming conventions
would be nice. I don't know that the world is any more ready for a common
Ada development environment now than they were back in 83. But some
standardization that made it easy to move a big wad of source code from
one development environment to another would be A Good Thing (tm).

MDC


John English wrote:

> Presumably the APSE. However, it's not even history -- just a dimly
> remembered legend passed down from generation to generation and being
> embellished as it goes... :-)

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