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From: byersmp@erols.com (Peggy Byers)
Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?
Date: 1996/06/09
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Date: 1996-06-09T00:00:00+00:00
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I work for a large defense contractor developing standard
transportation systems for the US Army.  I am currently working in C,
but I am indebted to Ada and a few good Ada books for taking me from a
COBOL/4GL coder to a pretty fair software engineer.  Another system
within our project developes for MS-DOS Character mode using Ada and
AdaSage.  The user community is asking for a GUI version running under
Windows NT.  They are also suggesting a language other than Ada
because it is there understanding that "the Ada mandate has been
lifted".  Do they know something I don't know?  Who is responsible for
deciding whether the Ada mandate stays in place?  

Mike Byers
Computer Science Corp.
Fort Lee, VA

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