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Subject: Re: Thus spake the DoD...
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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.