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From: Al Christians <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada and the NMD
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 21:53:38 -0700
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Date: 2001-09-05T21:53:38-07:00
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For all the commiseration about insufficient interest at large in
Ada, there is a development looming that could possibly remedy that
in a single stroke: the National Missile Defense plan.  This is a
system so preposterous that one can only think about doing it with
absurdly great software.  Is Ada the way to go for such a grandiose
project?  Is anyone lobbying to make Ada the "Official Programming 
Language of the NMD"?  Why or why not?   If the software for this 
project gets done primarily in non-Ada, then we can suspect that 
Ada's time has passed.  If it gets done primarily in Ada, then the 
anemia of interest in Ada will be cured instanter by a gross 
infusion of pelf.


Al