From: nreitzel@lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu (Norman L. Reitzel )
Subject: Re: Ada RCAS code thrown away; IBM/Loral/SBIS under indictment
Date: 1996/03/25
Date: 1996-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4j6ia6$9mj@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: DoLLFs.8rA@world.std.com
Greg,
Surely you do not think that this alters ADA's position as a language.
DOD is perhaps -the- most incompetent organization on the planet. If
they had been writing in C++, or in Pascal, or in GW Basic, the end would
have been the same. All this drivel about "cooperative code" and
"reusability" is just that: drivel.
Truth is, an application to control vernier thrusters simply cannot be
created out of an application to handle parking lot gates. Why this
surprizes anyone is a mystery to me. Why top DOD management thinks that
this is possible is no mystery at all - they are MBA types, totally
clueless about the technology that they are supposed to be "manageing".
Buck Up! The failure of RSAC is no reflection on ADA at all.
--
Norman L. Reitzel, Jr. | "When you live beside the graveyard,
nreitzel@lonestar.utsa.edu | you can't cry for every funeral."
Blue Water Ventures, dba. | Russian Proverb
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1996-03-21 0:00 Ada RCAS code thrown away; IBM/Loral/SBIS under indictment Gregory Aharonian
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Bob Crispen
1996-03-25 0:00 ` Norman L. Reitzel [this message]
[not found] ` <9603252120.AA29150@SCHONBERG.CS.NYU.EDU>
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Norman L. Reitzel
1996-03-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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