Re: Is DoD simulation ignoring using Ada?????

[l107353@cliffy.lfwc.lockheed.com (Garlington KE)]

Bob Crispen (crispen@EIGHT-BALL.HV.BOEING.COM) wrote:

: do with over the years, is one such architecture.  And I gather
: you're using a family of architectures which bear some passing
: resemblance to DARTS, in that they're products of something like
: the SEI's Structural Modeling process.

Yes, the F-22 program uses Structural Modeling.

: need to do to get reuse (the architectural part).  But I don't see
: you doing the easy part (an analysis of commonality and variability
: targeted toward embodiment in a process).  Here's where I think you

That analysis was done early in the program.

: c.l.a for not being something it was never intended to be.  STARS
: is about process-driven reuse, not about proving that Ada is cool.

I don't think my comment was related to Ada; rather, despite all the years
of STARS existence, I don't hear much about it being used on any major projects.
That may just be poor P.R. on the program's point, but nonetheless, there it is.

: One more time: STARS is about software engineering, not about Ada
: or even about programming.  If STARS is focusing on its main goal,
: well hooray for them.

But isn't it about time for that goal to have been realized? If not, why not?

Note that I'm not trying to start a flame war here. I certainly don't claim to 
be an expert here. It's just that I don't see the same penetration of STARS
products as I do of, say, SEI or SPC. As a result, I wouldn't use it as a
barometer one way or the other for the use of Ada.

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Ken Garlington                  GarlingtonKE@lfwc.lockheed.com
F-22 Computer Resources         Lockheed Fort Worth Co.

If LFWC or the F-22 program has any opinions, they aren't telling me.