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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Subject: Re: Legislative Mandate for Ada
Date: 14 Dec 90 17:00:08 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9701@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9700@as0c.sei.cmu.edu

In article <9700@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>probably be fairly cheap (as things go) to do so.  I can see the metric
>the bean counters are going to use to check compliance:
>
>                          Total KLOC - Ada KLOC
>                          ---------------------
>                              Total KLOC
>
>If the percentage doesn't approach 100 fast enough then they will mandate
>mindless translations.

Sheesh, you can tell I'm in government.  How about if it doesn't approach
zero fast enough (Crosby always wanted metrics to trend to zero...).

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  reply	other threads:[~1990-12-14 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1990-12-13 19:10 Legislative Mandate for Ada Michael Feldman
1990-12-13 22:12 ` Charles H. Sampson
1990-12-14  4:47   ` Michael Feldman
1990-12-14  2:59 ` g_harrison
1990-12-14 16:56 ` Bruce Benson
1990-12-14 17:00   ` Bruce Benson [this message]
1990-12-15 17:02   ` Michael Feldman
1990-12-17 18:26     ` Bruce Benson
1990-12-17 20:39       ` David Emery
1990-12-18 11:15         ` g_harrison
1990-12-18 14:10         ` RICK CARLE
1990-12-18 15:21         ` Bruce Benson
1990-12-18 22:46           ` compilers for Ada; " Paul Stachour
1990-12-20  1:59         ` Dick Dunn
1990-12-20 19:11           ` Ada survival without daddy Lord Byron (was leg. mandate) g_harrison
1990-12-21 19:15             ` Ada in Industry: Merit not Mandate Richard Pattis
1990-12-26 17:45               ` James THIELE
1990-12-17 20:57       ` Legislative Mandate for Ada Michael Feldman
1990-12-17 20:42     ` Charles H. Sampson
1990-12-17 22:13       ` Legislative Mandate for Ada; mindless translations Michael Feldman
1990-12-18 10:59       ` Legislative Mandate for Ada g_harrison
1990-12-18 17:41       ` Legislative Mandate for Ada; mindless translations Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
1990-12-14 20:59 ` Legislative Mandate for Ada Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
1990-12-15 17:50   ` Pat Rogers
1990-12-18 17:37   ` Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
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1990-12-15 17:22 Michael Feldman
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