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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c3d0e99376a4f379 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: History of Ada - to answer your question Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <1187235764.909133.180650@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> <1187972755.29852.58.camel@kartoffel> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: <6HUzi.53077$ax1.49470@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:49:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.128.44 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1188042562 12.64.128.44 (Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:49:22 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:49:22 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1559 Date: 2007-08-25T11:49:22+00:00 List-Id: I read this back in the early 2000s somewhere that DOD had stop supporting Ada or what they call the "Ada Joint Program Office" back in 98. So, in my last post about the GNAT DOS I check google and came across the GCN article ( link follows ) that gave some information about this. The fun part in reading this was that the article started that congress did not understand the DOD decision. [ Congress, not understanding? Go figure! ] Link => http://www.gcn.com/print/17_15/33804-1.html GCN => Government Computer News (Magazine) Article Date := June 22, 1998 issue Article Name := It's curtains for the Ada Joint Program Office Note => The "Ada Joint Program Office" closed in Oct 1998, and its web site shutdown in Nov 1998. Also check out: Link => http://www.gcn.com/print/16_17/32544-1.html GCN => Government Computer News (Magazine) Article Date := June 16, 1997 issue Article Name := Defense lifts its Ada requirement for programming And Link => https://listserv.dtic.mil/listcgi/wa?A2=ind0608&L=it-cop-l&P=2765 Web page type := ( Forum | Email ) In <1187972755.29852.58.camel@kartoffel>, Georg Bauhaus writes: >On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 13:04 +0000, anon wrote: >> The DOD decided >> to use more cheaper versions of computer languages, such as C. > >Do you happen to have a pointer to further information about >a DoD decision to switch to cheap languages such as C? Fine >if it is only published in print, or on the web, or by the >government, by the DoD, on old CD-ROMs (of which I own a few), >wherever. > >TIA, >-- Georg > > >