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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,909eec8c28e49f5b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: NRC Study Report Date: 1996/11/12 Message-ID: <96111217295181@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196198942 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: 1996-11-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen writes: >>> 3. Invest $15M/year for Ada infrastructure - or drop >>> Ada requirement entirely; >>> >> $15M/year ain't a lot. I'd consider that kind of funding level a >> disincentive for investment from commercial providers. But again, >> that's just IMHO. > >I would think it should be enough to run information services but not >fund development projects. Information provided freely to all is of >help to the Ada community. Information targeted at military officials >should ensure that when someone transfers back and forth between the >mandated and non-mandated military software worlds they know about >Ada in either case. > Well, I'd be curious to see what $15m/year in "information services" would buy. And I'd also be curious to see how that's going to get Ada into widespread use. I'm not against advertizing & publicity, but it would seem that $15m probably isn't going to buy a whole lot of that. If it's money spent on maintaining some sort of "office" to answer inquiries, I'd suspect that's not going to do much that the Internet isn't already doing better. I'd think that "infrastructure" would be better served by developing tools of one kind or another similar to GNAT - which has done a good job so far of "priming the pump". If some core tools were built which could be refined in the private sector into differentiated products, maybe that would help get even more developers interested? $15m/year could buy some pretty impressive tool development - provided it didn't get covered over by a thick layer of administratium. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 561.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669 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. ===============================================================================