Re: Ada caused failure of IBM's attempt to redesign air traffic system?

[Ron Thompson <thompsor@admin.tc.faa.gov>]

mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) wrote:
>
>>>IBM sold the entire Bethesda Md. branch involved in that paroject to Loral, 
>>and
>>>then the project was abandoned.  Ada was the chief cause of the failure.
>

One more time:
AAS died after 8 plus years of overrunning the budget and
doing things the old boy, big blue, 1955 way.  Period.
They could have been providing a simple upgrade to the 
original code, and they would have dumped that project because
of the way it was going.  It is a new world, and it took 
congress and faa a while to figure out that things can NOT
be done that way anymore.

One more time: Ada, or any other language for that matter,
had NOTHING to do with dumping that project.  Period.

rct
aos 420 (Terminal Operational Support)(thats the faa)

The opininons above are mine and mine alone.  The facts are
well documented.