Re: Ted Holden's disinformation

[woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)]

In article <8308@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>
>   That's interesting, Ted... according to the Proceedings of the
>   Eighth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology (p. 140),

self congratualatory bullshit...

>   STANFINS-R was completed on time and within budget, and it was
>   observed that the Ada code ran significantly faster than its COBOL
>   counterpart.  This is despite the fact that STANFINS-R had to take 

COBOL is glacial... almost everything [exfept possibly LISP] runs faster
than COBOL.  how does it stack up against C?

>   raw COBOL programmers and train them to be Ada Software Engineers, 

[Q] whats the difference between a programmer an a SW engineer?

\f

[A] a programmer codes but can't document [very well]...
    a SW engineer documents, but can't code [at all]

>   Not only was the Army's Information Systems Software Development Center 
>   tremendously pleased with the results, the Air Force has just announced 
>   its decision to use STANFINS-R as its financial software system as well.   
>

i'm impressed,  the army spent millions on the York.  they are happy
with the M-16... the Air Farce spend millions on toilet seats & minor tools...
i wonder how much STANFINS-R will cost us?

>   Any other flat-out lies you'd like to spread?
>   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
> 

eat me.

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