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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e35f2efd6c0447ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Richard D Riehle Subject: Re: Death of DSP support? Date: 1997/09/03 Message-ID: <5uisg7$k28@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 269655952 References: <3402E91D.6D1A@top.monad.net> <1997Aug27.125655.1@eisner> <5u86eg$n8d@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> Organization: Netcom X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Sep 02 10:27:35 PM PDT 1997 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-02T22:27:35-07:00 List-Id: In article <5u86eg$n8d@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>, Michael & Amy Hartsough wrote: [ snip snip snip ] >A couple of weeks ago, the Director Of Software Engineering at our >division made a presentation to his staff on the future directions of >our organization. A bullet on one of his charts stated that because the >DoD had dropped the Ada Mandate, we will be eliminating Ada and becoming >a C shop. [ snip snip snip ] Unfortunately, this is happening at other DoD Ada development shops. It is beginning to have its effect on support organizations. On the brighter side, at least one DoD software manager recently said "The only two languages I would consider using are Ada and Eiffel. Moreover, while the DoD makes the mistake of abrogating its Ada policy, some non-DoD Software Engineering Directors are beginning to notice Ada's benefits over C for safety-critical software. I recently met one non-DoD software manager who is trying to decide whether to move away from C++ with either Eiffel or Ada. Perhaps, as Ada is discovered by real engineers outside the DoD, it will be able to survive the stupidity of software managers who abandon Ada for C. I hope so. Richard Riehle AdaWorks