Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?

[stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)]

Robert Munck (pp000166@interramp.com) wrote:
: On Mon, 13 May 1996 07:27:37 +0000, Ken Garlington
: <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote:

: >Robert Munck wrote:
: >>... hardly anyone on the committee ... has come within a mile of developing
: >> applications software for the DoD in the last decade.
: >
: >I believe Maretta Holden would be an exception to this rule, and based
: >on personal experience, I don't think she'll have any trouble presenting
: >the DoD contractor view of things!

: My plea is for people who actually know how projects work, not people
: who read status reports, listen to briefings, read (and write)
: scholarly academic papers, and more or less believe what they hear.

I think that the committee is pretty well balanced
between "trench fighters" and "big picture" folks.
Admittedly, not all of us have done DoD software development,
but pretty much all of us have been in the trenches developing
software, and are quite familiar with the sorry state
of many "off-the-shelf" software products and components.

In any case, at this point the Ada community might want to focus
on providing constructive, well documented, input to the committee.

: ...
: Bob Munck@acm.org

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