Re: Air Force abandoning Ada

Re: Air Force abandoning Ada

[Blissful]

 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

Re: Air Force abandoning Ada - NOT!

[Robert S. White]

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.
-- 
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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!

[Jack Horner]

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
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Re: Air Force abandoning Ada

[John B. Matthews]

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