From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada
Date: 1996/09/06
Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Sep6165630@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4vnlgn$mko@uuneo.neosoft.com
In article <50nn37$rpa@uuneo.neosoft.com> rlove@neosoft.com (Robert B. Love ) writes:
> In <gwinn-0509961642430001@smc19.ed.ray.com> Joe Gwinn wrote:
> > The FAA no longer permits Ada on new procurements, subsequent to the
> AAS
> > debacle. It isn't often one gets to waste $6 billion. Only ANSI C
> and
> > C++ are permitted, except where existing systems are being modified.
> > There was a newsgroup debate on the wisdom of this decision, but the
> FAA
> > has in fact backed away from Ada.
>
> Isn't Thomson/France bragging they've done 30-some nation's air traffic
> control systems in Ada? Isn't Canada doing theirs now in Ada?
Yes - something like that (I don't know about the exact number). Dunno
about Canada, but I seem to recall that is also "yes" as well as Australia.
> This seems like a clear statement of Ada's suitablility for the task
> and against the competence of the AAS managers.
Yes sir-ee. I do believe you've got your mind around it. But remember -
we're talking about upper level and bean counter management at FAA. A
dumber more incompetent bunch of fools would be harder to find.
/Jon
--
Jon Anthony
Organon Motives, Inc.
1 Williston Road, Suite 4
Belmont, MA 02178
617.484.3383
jsa@organon.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-09-06 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-24 0:00 Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Robert B. Love
1996-08-26 0:00 ` John Woodruff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Chris Brand
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Bob Noel
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada (C-based COTS no excuse...) David Emery
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Sandy McPherson
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox