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From: Eric Baker <baker-md-pa@ccstmp.redstone.army.mil>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Fed OOPS ... OOPS! We forgot to include Ada!
Date: 22 Mar 1995 19:08:27 GMT
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srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) wrote:

>     Then tell the DoD to stop wasting Ada monies on contractors who have no
> long term plans to do anything with Ada.  IBM, which received tons of STARS
> money, has pretty much completed its discarding of everything Ada by
> announcing plans to develop a Visual-Basic clone to join its family of OO
> languages of Smalltalk and C++.  IBM has a BIG booth at Object World in
> Boston this week, and like it has for many years (including when it was
> receiving big Ada bucks from the DoD), it has no mention of Ada.
>

I hate to agree with Mr. Aharonian but he does make a good point.  I work with a
defense contractor that touts it's love affair with Ada and how it is the "right
thing to do" on our contracts.  The same company gets a large commercial contract
(i.e. no Ada mandate) and plans to use C++.  If I am not mistaken, the company
has not produced a product with C++ previously (C was popular until we forced Ada
 use).  It will be difficult to "mainstream" Ada with this two-faced attitude
in the commercial world.


> P.S.  I apologize for using words like "investments", "return", etc.  I know
> how nauseating these words are to socialists.


Is Greg implying that Ada users are socialists?!


Eric Baker (Republican)

My opinions are mine only.