From: "Marc A. Criley" <mcqada@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Ada and the NMD
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:27:21 GMT
Date: 2001-09-06T12:27:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B975F97.145C3BAD@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3B970152.4AC6C6E3@PublicPropertySoftware.com
Al Christians wrote:
>
> 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.
Ada is being used in several components of the NMD program--it's a big
program across many contractors, so I don't know the full breadth of its
use. There's lots of Ada executing as part of those missile tests that
go off in the Pacific every few months. (And no one has suggested Ada
is associated with any of the failures that had occurred.)
Marc A. Criley
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-06 4:53 Ada and the NMD Al Christians
2001-09-06 10:27 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-06 11:55 ` Florian Weimer
2001-09-06 18:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-07 19:31 ` Florian Weimer
2001-09-06 11:13 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-06 13:57 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-06 15:11 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-06 15:27 ` James Rogers
2001-09-06 16:25 ` Off Topic: NMD/Environment was: (Re: Ada and the NMD) Marin David Condic
2001-09-06 17:57 ` chris.danx
2001-09-06 18:52 ` Darren New
2001-09-06 19:35 ` chris.danx
2001-09-06 20:01 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-06 21:43 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-06 21:46 ` Darren New
2001-09-06 22:13 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-07 0:28 ` Jeff Creem
2001-09-07 8:42 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-07 1:27 ` James Rogers
2001-09-07 8:56 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-07 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-07 16:10 ` James Rogers
2001-09-10 14:57 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-07 13:45 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-07 16:06 ` Darren New
2001-09-08 1:59 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-09-10 14:48 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-10 15:15 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2001-09-08 16:35 ` Larry Elmore
2001-09-10 14:35 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-10 23:01 ` Larry Elmore
2001-09-07 13:38 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-06 18:56 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-08 0:38 ` Larry Elmore
2001-09-06 17:59 ` Ada and the NMD Ted Dennison
2001-09-06 19:39 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-06 20:15 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-06 21:31 ` WAY OFF TOPIC was: " Marin David Condic
2001-09-07 14:12 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-07 16:25 ` Robert Dewar
2001-09-06 20:34 ` James Rogers
2001-09-06 21:02 ` OT: US Green politics (was: Ada and the NMD) Ted Dennison
2001-09-07 2:06 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2001-09-07 13:59 ` Off Topic " Marin David Condic
2001-09-07 16:19 ` Ada and the NMD Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2001-09-10 14:53 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-06 22:04 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-07 14:29 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-08 0:54 ` Larry Elmore
2001-09-06 17:21 ` Dale Pennington
2001-09-06 21:54 ` Preben Randhol
2001-09-10 5:51 ` Richard Riehle
2001-09-10 20:57 ` David Bolen
2001-09-10 21:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-10 21:36 ` Steve Howard
2001-09-06 17:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-09 11:53 ` Stefan Skoglund
2001-09-06 12:27 ` Marc A. Criley [this message]
2001-09-06 16:34 ` William Dale
2001-09-06 19:20 ` Ada in air/missile defense systems (was: Ada and NMD) Michael P. Card
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