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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b8c5fefd3f42c8d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-24 16:54:58 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!annwfn!annwfn!merlin From: merlin@annwfn.com (Fred McCall) Subject: Re: DoD STD-2167A? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 14:38:30 -0400 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: <85BA3244E26@annwfn.com> References: <35mqdo$gqt@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> Organization: Is For People Who Don't Have Real Work X-Newsreader: Newsy 0.22 Date: 1994-09-24T14:38:30-04:00 List-Id: In <35mqdo$gqt@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM Ted Dennison writes: >Of course, being an Adaphile, I believe 2167A's emphasis on quality IMPLIES >a use of Ada. Not to mention its insistence on reams of meaningless verbosity in the way of documentation. I will merely note that there is a strong move to do away with requirement of 2167A compliance and have DoD go to 'best commercial practice' in order to try to get costs down out of the stratosphere; I will leave the corollery back to Ada to someone else (but it certainly seems to apply). -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden --------------------------------------------------------------------------- merlin@annwfn.com -- I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.