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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7961088baf0e34d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada Date: 1996/08/24 Message-ID: <96082413025149@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176351745 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU x-vms-to: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-vms-cc: CONDIC Date: 1996-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Byron B. Kauffman" writes: >Can anyone name a 'commercial standard' for software development? Should we use >Microsoft's example of how commercial software is developed? I guess I >shouldn't be >suprised, given our company's 'official' stand, but it still bugs me... > I believe there are some IEEE "standards" that relate to software development (I presume you're thinking of something that parallels Mil-Std-2167a?) But remember that a 'commercial standard' could mean something as simple as the documented development practices for your company. (All that ISO-9000, SEI-CMM type of stuff.) >But on the brighter side, think of the money the company will be saving now by >not having >to spend all those hours coming up with excuses to justify an Ada waiver!!! > I think it is truly a disgrace to see companies fight this thing. (STILL!) Ada has all the capabilities needed to write just about any kind of software you like and there are enough good quality compilers out there which are equal to or better than compilers for any other language. If the energy had been spent on building an "Ada Infrastructure" within a business (As we here at Pratt did years ago) instead of being spent on excuse-making and dodging the expressed desires of the customer, there would be no cause to argue that "Ada isn't as good as C because there's more C stuff out there..." BTW: The argument "there's more C stuff out there..." is the only semi-plausable business/engineering reason to think that "C is better than Ada...", in my not-so-humble opinion. In every other respect Ada is as good as or better than C and I have never heard any convincing engineering reason to select C over Ada. But then, this seems to be the way of things in a technological society. Beta was better than VHS - so VHS wins. VMS was better than UNIX, so UNIX wins. Macintosh was better than IBM-PC, so IBM-PC wins... etc. etc. etc. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 407.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 407.796.4669 P.O. Box 109600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 Internet: CONDIC@FLINET.COM =============================================================================== "That which belongs to another." -- Diogenes, when asked what wine he liked to drink. ===============================================================================