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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8a6ea86bcb75690a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: wfrye@mnsinc.com (William Frye) Subject: Re: Ada caused failure of IBM's attempt to redesign air traffic system? Date: 1996/11/21 Message-ID: <572c85$9ib@news1.mnsinc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 197915402 distribution: inet references: <5573ab$9st@news.ptd.net> <55kotr$k0b@news.ptd.net> <55ktc0$f9b@news2.cais.com> <55kuj0$p6a@news.ptd.net> <178358AF9S86.DLHARM1@ukcc.uky.edu> <55nbnh$6oe@news.ptd.net> <3280BF16.1F34@eurocontrol.fr> <55rjov$gun@news4.digex.net> <560h88$33c_002@billc.nwlink.com> <5614a3$68m@news4.digex.net> <01bbce3a$fbe478e0$1ece77cc@michaelp> <56dfqs$bto@news4.digex.net> <56khk1$4p7@news4.digex.net> <56l5s7$699@news4.digex.net> organization: Monumental Network Systems newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. : -- : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : Jamie Schrumpf http://www.access.digex.net/~moncomm : "It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as : it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as : you have got it." --- Edmund Way Teale, "Circle of the Seasons"