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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 12:06:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-server.caltech.edu!attla2!ip.att.net!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F5B81B9.5060700@attbi.com> From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.139.183 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1062961609 24.34.139.183 (Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:06:49 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:06:49 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:06:49 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42241 Date: 2003-09-07T19:06:49+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > All in all, I think that the DoD and Boeing are the willing victims of > hardware, software and services vendors, all of which want high > development costs and unreliable software. It is worth remembering that the Boeing of today is not the Boeing that was trying to get to Ada for everything. Due to mergers--the big one was Boeing and McDonald-Douglas--the Boeing of a decade ago is less than half of today's Boeing. -- Robert I. Eachus "As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." -- Jacques Chirac, President of France "As far as France is concerned, you're right." -- Rush Limbaugh