From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Subject: Re: A farewell to Ada
Date: 15 Nov 89 18:55:33 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4948@ae.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 14033@grebyn.com
Painful as it was, I read your whole article, Ted.
When you say (in article <14033@grebyn.com>, Ted Holden):
> Does Ada work any better for large scale systems? Another article
>in the same Journal of Electronics Defense issue describing use of Ada on
>the 1,246,000 line Army AFATDS system claims that:
>
> "Ninety percent of the software requirements were met with no major
> software problems."
>
>as if this were good. The man is claiming that he had major language-
>related problems with 124,600 lines of code out of 1,246,000.
how can you expect to be taken seriously? Do you really believe the math
and premises behind your statement? Wow!
Rich
--
We use kill ratios to measure how the war is going.
We use SLOC ratios to measure how our software is coming.
(Idea from Gary Seath) rsd@sei.cmu.edu
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-14 22:54 ` schmidt
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-15 16:29 ` Ada & IBM William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 15:16 ` ryer
1989-11-18 18:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-20 4:53 ` Jerry Callen
1989-11-19 6:05 ` Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 19:20 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-19 20:19 ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-20 12:55 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-25 23:35 ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-26 9:03 ` Ken Ritchie
1989-11-15 23:18 ` Ada Promises Doug Schmidt
1989-11-16 22:45 ` Ada compilers William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-19 6:30 ` This has gotten stupid! Dick Dunn
1989-11-16 19:08 ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 18:53 ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 5:24 ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22 9:54 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-22 18:44 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-23 9:44 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23 7:12 ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-21 14:35 ` Ada [and the object oriented metaphor] mjl
1989-11-22 20:54 ` Hoare, Ada, and safety/complexity John Goodenough
1989-11-24 0:38 ` Richard Pattis
1989-11-26 6:09 ` Ada vs. C++ Paul S. R. Chisholm
1989-11-18 6:38 ` Ada Marco S Hyman
1989-11-19 7:25 ` interesting statistic Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 18:54 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-24 17:44 ` Cay Horstmann
1989-11-25 19:59 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 15:59 ` Ada allows one-char names (was Re: Ada) Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm
1989-11-19 5:52 ` Forward into the past Dick Dunn
1989-11-20 16:47 ` Ada vs. Posix -- the battle continues mjl
1989-11-20 21:51 ` Ada & Posix William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 1:06 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-15 18:55 ` Richard S D'Ippolito [this message]
1989-11-17 17:19 ` A farewell to Ada Michael Schwartz
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1989-11-19 3:33 Ted Holden
1989-11-22 15:07 ` Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-21 20:11 Ted Holden
1989-11-22 13:10 ` achille petrilli
1989-11-22 5:21 Michael Hunter
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