From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8069a486cafde832 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public 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 Message-ID: <4j6ia6$9mj@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144183927 references: organization: University of Texas at San Antonio keywords: DOD Management newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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