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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-30 08:22:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:24:14 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3ED7779E.930ABCEA@adaworks.com> References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ED6A852.75AC0133@adaworks.com> <3ED74ED3.4020505@noplace.com> <3ed75cc3$1@news.wineasy.se> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 3f.bb.a8.d7 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 30 May 2003 15:22:02 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38107 Date: 2003-05-30T15:22:02+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei T. Jensen" wrote: > The only workable plan I know of involves me having an job in academia and > farming out projects to students. Since I'm not in academia the plan sinks > (or stinks). Even in academia, a professor is too often dependent on outside funding for support. Also, students are not so compliant unless the work they are doing is related to a pre-stated reward. Such rewards are more difficult to confer unless they are related to either an on-going class or funded research. Since we are having more difficulty, in recent times, getting a fully-formed Ada class populated by students, and since funding is notably scarce, most professors find themselves with little motivation to do work related to Ada. If such funding were available, I would be happy to encourage more of my own students to pursue more Ada projects, including the development of more libraries. The unconscionable position of the current DoD management regarding funding for Ada support and research is much to the detriment of our continued superiority in military software systems. At present, there seems to be no avenue leading to a more enlightened DoD policy. Richard Riehle