Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada

[dale!jhb@nosc.mil (John Bollenbacher)]

Would we possibly save large amounts of bandwidth if we all agreed with
Greg?  Greg, we all agree that if the mandate we lifted and the DoD were
allowed to choose the cheapest language with which to create a system one
of 2 things would happen:
  1) Ada would not successfully compete in the open market and would
  disappear, or
  2) Ada would successfully compete and its prices would drop

It is also quite obvious that in either case, the DoD would be in the
position it was in when it decided it needed a mandate.  Now this is the
part that needs to be read slowly by some:

The DoD is responsible for maintaining huge amounts of embedded software
for very long periods of time.  If each procurer is free to choose the
implementation language that make his program's creation cheapest, there
will be an overwhelming number of language/dialects to be maintained by
this department (read tax-dollars).  The point of the mandate is the ease 
this management problem.

IT IS NOT THE GOVERNMENTS JOB TO MAKE ADA SUCCESSFUL IN THE OPEN MARKET.

Sorry, for the caps (and the general, frustrated, tone of this posting).

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