From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,563d1b715d872ad1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-07 15:00:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC0D083.546674E5@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why? US Army Ada software converted to C++? References: <061020011935502631%demery@cox.rr.com> <7xTv7.11227$IY3.8208030@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <20011007141253.G6134-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:00:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.34.80 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1002492022 12.86.34.80 (Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:00:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:00:22 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13877 Date: 2001-10-07T22:00:22+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > > Indeed. And all of this talk of switching to C++ for weapons systems is > scary. I guess we can be thankful that the DOD hasn't switched to Perl, > yet... Not Perl, but there has been movement toward Java. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA (One of those less desirable locales, and let's keep it that way.)