Kudos to Maj. Gen. Gary Stemley

Kudos to Maj. Gen. Gary Stemley

[Gregory Aharonian]

    Well shiver my timbers.  Just when I had established a long track record
showing the total non-marketing of Ada outside the Mandated world in the trade
presses and at trade shows (by those in the Ada community recipients of tax
dollars to do a much better job), along comes along someone in the DoD who
knows what end is up.

    In a very nice article in the March 29, 1993, issue of Computerworld,
page 12, there is a full page article about the Army's RCAS system, in which
US Army Major General Gary Stemley repeatedly mentions the many benefits to
RCAS in using Ada, with a headline "9000 LANS, 60000 users, 2 million lines
of code of Ada".  The article is a great piece of work in reporting on one
major success story with Ada that addresses the same issues that management
at most companies are now addressing.  Theis the first time in about four years
that I have seen Ada mentioned so prominently in any Computerworld article.

    So kudos to Maj. Gen Stemley for doing something no one else inside the
DoD is willing to do.  I hope you don't get fired.  In fact, I hope they
fire all of the current vapor-marketing managers of Ada9X, STARS, etc and
put you in charge.  Maybe then Ada will get the exposure it needs outside
the Mandated world to rise above being a niche language.

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
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