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: 103376,6f06a77ed44d6869 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" Subject: Re: Help Wanted Date: 1998/09/17 Message-ID: <98091709141352@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 392191172 Sender: Ada programming language Comments: To: dfh@apci.net X-VMS-To: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-VMS-Cc: SMTP%"dfh@APCI.NET",CONDIC Date: 1998-09-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: David Harrison writes: > >This annoying bit of spam just arrived. Does anyone notice something >missing? > >> Subject: >> ProObject, request for assistance Seeing as how they are requiring "Top Secret" security clearance (something not all that common in industry) one would presume this is some sort of Government Job - possibly a government contract. It sure sounds like the government is abandoning Ada. What ever happened to that business of requiring cost justification for language choice in the wake of abandoning "The Mandate"? I've heard the arguments for dropping The Mandate and they sure sound convincing. But I've been afraid that the message would be: "Ada is so terrible that even we, who created it, don't want to have anything to do with it anymore." (It doesn't matter what you *say* - it matters what people *hear*!) Well I'm glad we've made inroads in other areas - particularly education. Maybe those inroads will sow the seeds for future growth and people will be willing to drop their preconceived notions and judge the language on its merits. It would be ironic if a new generation of programmers were to be coming out of school with Ada experience and end up trying to justify to a contract officer why he shouldn't be demanding they do the project in C++ because Ada is the technically & financially smarter choice. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer Voice: 561.796.8997 Pratt & Whitney GESP, M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600 Fax: 561.796.4669 West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM ============================================================================= "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- G.B. Shaw =============================================================================