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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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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