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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-25 12:28:21 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 25 Nov 1994 15:26:02 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3b5h8q$de0@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <784995260snz@rippleco.demon.co.uk> <3at748$3bg@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <3b5ajt$n86@news-2.csn.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16967 comp.lang.c:69737 comp.programming:13077 comp.lang.c++:80324 comp.object:17740 Date: 1994-11-25T15:26:02-05:00 List-Id: In article <3b5ajt$n86@news-2.csn.net>, Carlos Perez wrote: >Also Ada is associated with the "US military" and so "can't be appropriate" >for commercial use. I hope someday that Ada will be regarded like >TCP/IP and recognized as a military invention useful to the commercial world >in a broad way. If you run into people who think that anything developed by the "military" - by which I take it you mean the Department of Defense - could not be appropriate for commercial use, please remind them that not only was TCP/IP a "military invention" (that is, _funded_ by DoD), but so were Berkeley Unix, X Windows, and a raft of other software things over the years. People's memories are very selective as to who funded what. Also, there is monumental ignorance of the history of things we take for granted. Like it or not, defense "spinoffs" are nearly everywhere in technological life. That includes Ada, which needs to be evaluated on its technical merits, not on ignorant "perceptions". Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the World-Wide Web: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Illegitimi non carborundum." (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------