* Re: Air Force abandoning Ada
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@ 1996-03-22 0:00 ` Blissful
1996-03-24 0:00 ` Air Force abandoning Ada - NOT! Robert S. White
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From: Blissful @ 1996-03-22 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Interesting ideas -- I read the same article but if USAF
is abandoning Ada, why is is spending big bucks to upgrade
the B-1B processors and to convert our current mish mash
of JOVIAL/AP-101F avionics software to Ada?
Although I think that Ada needs a really good, really cheap
"Borland" compiler to have any chance at becoming mainstream,
I don't think we can sound the death nell just yet.
Vern Bliss
Boeing B-1B software engineer
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* Re: Air Force abandoning Ada - NOT!
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Air Force abandoning Ada Blissful
@ 1996-03-24 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Jack Horner
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From: Robert S. White @ 1996-03-24 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <4iuuml$27r@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, blissful@aol.com says...
>
>the B-1B processors and to convert our current mish mash
>of JOVIAL/AP-101F avionics software to Ada?
>
Speaking from the experience of converting from Jovial (C like) to Ada 83
for GPS now GPS/INS embedded system developement, I think you will be able to
look back after a few years of work on a team programming effort and think
the change was worthwhile. Ada 95 will only be better. IMHO and AFAIK.
--
___________________________________________________________________________
Robert S. White -- an embedded systems software engineer
WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US -- It's long, but I pay for it!
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* Re: Air Force abandoning Ada - NOT!
1996-03-24 0:00 ` Air Force abandoning Ada - NOT! Robert S. White
@ 1996-03-25 0:00 ` Jack Horner
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From: Jack Horner @ 1996-03-25 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
PERSONYX, Inc., sells a JOVIAL-to-Ada and JOVIAL-to-C translator.
Interest in the MIL avionics community in this approach is very
high. For further information, contact:
PERSONYX, Inc.
314 E. San Rafael Street
Colorado Springs, CO
80903
Voice: 719-475-8781
Fax: 719-475-7088
E-mail: 73007.502@compuserve.com
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* Re: Air Force abandoning Ada
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@ 1996-03-27 0:00 ` John B. Matthews
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From: John B. Matthews @ 1996-03-27 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
In article <4iabm5$4gf@rational.rational.com>, gabrielb@rational.com (Gabriel Bereny) writes:
> Peter Hermann (ucaa2385@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote:
> : Greg is back.
>
> He's been away learning about metaphors.
>
>> the kiss of death for Ada in the Air Force, and probably the
>> trumpet call to see which of the branches can abandon Ada the
>> quickest.
>
> I guess he didn't make it as far as the admonition against mixing
> them.
In this case, "trumpet" clearly refers to the Last Trump of
Judgement Day, a widely held metaphysical sequiter of death.
The metephor is thus apt, if not strictly "rational" :-)
John
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