Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered?

[jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <4peu0v$rfq@news15.erols.com> byersmp@erols.com (Peggy Byers) writes:

> I work for a large defense contractor developing standard
> transportation systems for the US Army.  I am currently working in C,
> but I am indebted to Ada and a few good Ada books for taking me from a
> COBOL/4GL coder to a pretty fair software engineer.  Another system
> within our project developes for MS-DOS Character mode using Ada and
> AdaSage.  The user community is asking for a GUI version running under
> Windows NT.  They are also suggesting a language other than Ada
> because it is there understanding that "the Ada mandate has been
> lifted". 

What a great piece of "reasoning" and "analysis", your customer has
there.  Switch (and piss away large sums of money in the process) just
because "maybe no one watching".  Forget the fact that you could get
to the purported goal simpler, easier and cheaper using the tools you
are already using (AdaSage has GUI capability).  Of course, this sort
of idiocy and waste doesn't surprise me much as your customer appears
to be in the government.  But it does piss me off because they will be
throwing away some of _my_ money in the course of fulfilling their
quest for waste "justified" by stupidity.

/Jon
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