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From: Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU
Subject: Modernising Ada
Date: 16 Oct 89 12:44:37 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8910161244.AA10153@fa.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)

Continuing the debate, I am asked to repost this (but I was warned to
proof read it first, this time!).

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>>  As per Richard Fairley (Software Engineering Concepts, 1985, Ch. 7,
>>  Page 229), Ada is part of "the technology of software engineering".
                      ^^^^
correct, ada is only an instantiation of a particular and very miniscule
facet of s/w engineering (the programming part).

>>  . . . The question is whether Ada is
>>  to become an *obsolescent* software engineering technology, just
>>  as COBOL did before it.

it already has.  it is 60's and 70's technology.  don't look now but
the '90 are just around the corner.

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