From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 18 Aug 93 21:37:06 GMT From: walter!porthos!porthos!aaron@uunet.uu.net (Aaron Akman) Subject: Re: Strassman says Ada is not cost effective Message-ID: List-Id: In article srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: >>These sentiments probably explain why when he was in office, Strassman >>never mentioned Ada in interviews in the trade press - he didn't want to Actually, the most pro-Ada magazine article I've ever read was written by Paul Strassman. It's in the September 1992 issue of American Programmer. Take a look...it's really an eye-popper. Here are some select quotes from the article: A recent study that explored the question, "Who are the resisters to the adoption of Ada?" showed that the resisters are predominately the creative loner-programmers...[it gets much juicier] The essence of Ada is its highly disciplined, structured approach that enforces a manufacturinglike process on software design...by far the best choice that meets the wide diversity...for at least the next decade. Conversion from a "craft" to an "industrial" mode...is the only way I know to cope with the new demands, and Ada is the computer language of choice to support this goal. I'm not quoting from this article to support it, but I think it's a bit misleading to quote Strassman to support your crusade when he can just as easily be quoted as saying that Ada is the language of choice for the next decade. -- aaron@iscp.bellcore.com (Aaron Akman) RRC 4B-325, x6262