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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/09 Message-ID: <4pfq19$cd3@dfw.dfw.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 159353906 references: <4mq7mg$8hs@jake.probe.net> <4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com> organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com>, Peggy Byers wrote: >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? > Your customers are wrong and ill-informed (*gasp*! Could it be? :-) The "mandate" is under review, but that's a LONG way from "has been lifted", and it's _definitely_ not the way I would bet. More info can be found at: http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/21b6.html -- Visit the Ada 95 Booch Components Homepage: www.ocsystems.com/booch This is not your father's Ada -- lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada