From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
Subject: Re: STANFINS Misinformation
Date: 13 Mar 90 08:58:38 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8354@hubcap.clemson.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19456@grebyn.com
From ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden):
> From: William Thomas Wolfe @hubcap.clemson.edu
>> That's interesting, Ted... according to the Proceedings of the
>> Eighth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology (p. 140),
>> STANFINS-R was completed on time and within budget, [...]
>
> I'm not going to call people liars over the net, Mr. Wolfe, but one of us is
> misinformed and I don't think it's me. I have friends who work with
> that project and they tell me it's at least 100% over budget and between
> 8 and 20 months behind schedule, according to your point of view.
I suggest that you directly contact the person in charge of ensuring
the satisfaction of cost/scheduling constraints for STANFINS-R by
its implementor, Computer Sciences Corporation:
Mr. William H. Pitts
Chief, Field Accounting Systems Division
Department of the Army
U.S. Army Information Systems Software Development Center
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis, IN 46249-0901
(317) 543-6595
The source is: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual National Conference
on Ada Technology, page 140, column 2, paragraph 2, last sentence.
>> Regrettably for Mr. Holden, object-oriented Ada is available right
>> now. Software Productivity Solutions has a product called Classic
>> Ada which serves as a Smalltalk-based object-oriented preprocessor
>> for Ada-language software developers. Another object-oriented approach
>> along the lines of Zetalisp's Flavors (InnovAda) will soon be on the
>> market as well. But Ted Holden will never let reality interfere with
>> his point of view, as he has so repeatedly demonstrated.
>
> And you know perfectly well that Ada code thus generated would be
> unmaintainable (as Ada code),
Not necessarily.
> ungodly slow (as if ordinary Ada wasn't),
Which it isn't (neither Classic Ada nor Ada itself are slow).
> and against the religion.
Ada, unlike research languages, is subject to systematic, controlled
revision in accordance with the 10-year revision cycle associated with
ISO standards. Preprocessors such as Classic Ada are designed to meet
immediate requirements for which the 10-year revision point is too distant.
Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu
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