From: wfrye@mnsinc.com (William Frye)
Subject: Re: Ada caused failure of IBM's attempt to redesign air traffic system?
Date: 1996/11/21
Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572c85$9ib@news1.mnsinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56l5s7$699@news4.digex.net
Jamie Schrumpf (jamie@dcd00745.slip.digex.net) wrote:
: This post came from another group, but certainly has bearing here. Can anyone
: comment on Ted's claim that IBM's failure to redesign the air traffic system
: was due to Ada?
I have'nt seen any names here that I remember from the AAS project so here's my
$0.02 worth. There were certainly problems in the early days of the contract
with inadequate compilers. The last I knew there was still not an adequate
dbugger installed (I don't know if there was one for the environment or not).
These still were probably far less important than the problems of undersanding
the requirements and keeping them within the scope of feasiblity.
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1996-11-16 0:00 ` Ada caused failure of IBM's attempt to redesign air traffic system? Jamie Schrumpf
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-16 0:00 ` Vincent Celier
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-11-18 0:00 ` deannelson
1996-11-21 0:00 ` William Frye [this message]
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Jamie Schrumpf
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