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From: "Singlespeeder" <singlespeeder@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: ADA in military?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:26:32 -0000
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> >  The commercial side had lots of nasty situations that would
> > never be allowed on a DoD job (eg: code that no-one understands any
> > more, but gets included in every simulator as part of a cargo-cult
ritual.)
>
> I think that's what "Singlespeeder" meant by describing commercial
> systems as "interesting" :-)
>

Absolutely.

Mind you a few avionic engineers have improved their Ada after reading:

"Safer C: Developing Software for High-integrity and Safety-critical
Systems"
Les Hatton
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company; ISBN: 0077076400

My experience of military software is that it pays less well than
commercial, but the beauty of working on classified material is that you
can't take it home with you. Once you've walked (or in my case cycled) out
of work you're free :-)

Nick