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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c8086456b887be55 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-19 12:31:35 PST Path: supernews.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison Sender: usenet@www.newsranger.com References: Subject: Re: License to Steal Message-ID: <92HD6.3345$D4.334091@www.newsranger.com> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:31:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.22.130 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com X-Trace: www.newsranger.com 987708677 209.208.22.130 (Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:31:17 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:31:17 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:7013 Date: 2001-04-19T19:31:17+00:00 List-Id: In article , Riehle, Richard says... > >original Ada policy had been abrogated. Then I pointed out that, >since the abrogation of that policy, I see people using all kinds of >new languages. I predicted that over the next few years, we will >be right back to the situation that triggered the need for Ada in >the first place: a proliferation of programming languages that only .. >As I was describing this situation, one of my students said, paraphrasing, >"It sounds like cancelling the Ada mandate became a license to steal." In all fairness, my impression is that the mandate was widely ignored when it was in effect (thown down and danced upon would be a better description), and that today's proliferation of little scripting languages (Perl, Python, TCL, VisualBasic, JavaScript, Guile, Ruby, etc.) owe practialy nothing to DoD support. But whatever the causes, I'll grant you that the symmetry is interesting. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com