From: bob@sdcsvax.UUCP (Robert Hofkin)
Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 20:58:38 EST [thread overview]
Date: Sat Feb 16 20:58:38 1985
Message-ID: <687@sdcsvax.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 417@ssc-vax.UUCP
I say: don't believe everything the government tells you. There are
exceptions to the STARS initiative you could drive the entire DoD
through! First, eliminate projects that aren't "mission critical."
Second, forget all but "embedded systems." Third, find an Ada compiler
that will work (i.e., generate small, quick code) in the remaining
environments (things like missles). Unless you have ALL THREE, Ada
won't be REQUIRED. Where it isn't required, Ada probably won't be used
because of the high retraining cost and investment in existing
language-specific software development tools.
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1985-02-14 15:59 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
1985-02-17 1:58 ` Robert Hofkin [this message]
1985-02-17 16:36 ` g-frank
1985-02-18 5:18 ` Skef Wholey
1985-02-18 14:33 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-02-19 19:09 ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-02-22 2:21 ` LISP &c (re: the DoD...) Thomas M. Breuel
1985-02-25 17:08 ` Thus spake the DoD Jan Steinman
1985-02-26 23:20 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-02-27 19:22 ` Daniel J. Salomon
1985-03-01 19:30 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-01 20:13 ` neves
1985-03-02 4:33 ` Thomas M. Breuel
1985-03-02 18:35 ` Efficiency of LISP Marty Sasaki
1985-03-03 0:23 ` Language criticism Greg Davidson
1985-03-06 14:13 ` Thus spake the DoD geb
1985-02-28 3:16 ` David Schachter
1985-03-01 19:00 ` Stanley Shebs
1985-03-03 3:08 ` Joaquim Martillo
1985-03-03 6:12 ` T J Jardine
1985-03-05 16:55 ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-05 21:07 ` Robert A. Pease
1985-03-12 1:47 ` Ed Colbert
1985-03-13 19:35 ` Monique M Taylor
1985-03-17 19:49 ` Jan Steinman
1985-03-21 1:17 ` faustus
1985-03-12 0:25 ` Efficiency of LISP Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-12 2:11 ` Efficiency of numerical Lisp code (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-13 7:05 ` Chuck Hedrick
1985-03-13 20:00 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-14 10:12 ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-15 0:27 ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-16 0:59 ` Tim Maroney
1985-03-17 18:58 ` Bill Henneman
1985-03-18 5:02 ` Multi-language systems Marty Sasaki
1985-03-20 17:01 ` Tom Slack
1985-03-18 21:24 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Tim Maroney
1985-03-19 6:45 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? Barry Margolin
1985-03-19 17:35 ` Speed of Lisp numerical code Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-20 21:04 ` Fortran better than Lisp for numerical code? T J Jardine
1985-03-22 2:10 ` Joe Orost
1985-03-19 16:15 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Bill Henneman
1985-03-19 3:40 ` Norman Diamond
1985-03-18 3:01 ` Common Lisp and Arrays Joaquim Martillo
1985-02-18 23:49 ` Thus spake the DoD M.Fischer
1985-03-14 20:50 ` Speed with numbers: PDP-10 Maclisp vs. Fortran (details) Stavros Macrakis
1985-03-15 15:42 ` Stanley Shebs
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1985-02-15 14:34 Thus spake the DoD Frederick J Dickey
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