From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:47:54 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 12:48:21 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau+news@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.19 X-Trace: sv3-WQo2a2kmBHzGhgl37ZhwrASeBvMJEvUfdOX1DFasXaB/06ySZ80MYZrGOwK9+WBVdkWXZE/XF4zfT62!2r1TbExMwuFWbHVeKCvRB7XWRnFuirVrY7ET7ZmB0swszTFVJbSWqn7JCHIsW7p6TZhe9ULDCVi2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:914 Date: 2004-05-29T12:48:21-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > What are we doing to get Ada *into* those jobs? If Ada is really so > great and the guys who are picking C++ are such boneheads, then it > really must be possible to start a company aimed at developing avionics > computers that would just blow the doors off of the competition, right? > They're just a bunch of boneheads who are picking the high cost, long > schedule option for no better reason that this is what is "popular", > right? Idiots like that ought to be *easy* to out-compete on the bidding Maybe. But I'm aware of defense bids that offered Java or a particular O.S. _because_ the bidder was aware that the contracts would be awarded by boneheads who had let the general culture persuade them that Java or that O.S. was the way to go and that Ada or Unix was obsolete. -- Wes Groleau http://groleau.freeshell.org/teaching/