From: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>
Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:41:19 GMT
Date: 2000-10-30T20:41:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <P1lL5.174$pq3.20616@news.flash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39FDB80A.728339A9@averstar.com
"Tucker Taft" <stt@averstar.com> wrote in message
news:39FDB80A.728339A9@averstar.com...
: In my experience (which is admittedly limited), DoD folks are not
: interested in military success stories; they want to see technology
: that is commercially successful. Unfortunately, it seems that commercial
: folks are also not particularly interested in a language that is
associated
: with defense. Hence, there seems no particular upside in spending energy
: researching defense success stories, as nobody seems to be willing to
: use them as a reason to consider Ada.
Interesting - I know more than one defense project that decided not to use
Ada, in part because "obviously" no one else in the defense industry was
sticking with it for new projects. Of course, you may be right that *DoD*
folks aren't interested, but what does that have to do (in today's
environment) with whether or not it's used on the average defense project?
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-30 16:04 Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Ken Garlington
2000-10-30 18:03 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-30 18:25 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-30 20:41 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
2000-10-30 18:30 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-30 21:36 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-10-30 22:01 ` James Rogers
2000-11-01 14:38 ` John Kern
2000-11-01 16:16 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-30 22:17 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-31 4:10 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-31 14:52 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-31 16:50 ` mjsilva
2000-10-31 17:06 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-10-31 17:39 ` mjsilva
2000-11-01 2:39 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-01 3:19 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-01 19:27 ` Tucker Taft
2000-11-01 20:04 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-02 0:37 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 0:42 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-02 3:16 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 3:48 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-02 12:38 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 13:33 ` Gautier
2000-11-03 5:30 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 0:42 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Ada vs. C++ in defense projects Michael P. Card
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Jeff Stimson
2000-11-04 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-05 0:57 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Love
2000-10-31 8:06 ` Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Pascal Obry
2000-10-31 14:53 ` Jean St-Pierre
2000-10-31 15:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-31 21:10 ` Jean St-Pierre
2000-10-31 21:17 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-31 21:13 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-03 0:00 ` mark_lundquist
2000-11-04 3:08 ` DuckE
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Frode Tennebø
2000-11-07 0:17 ` mark
2000-11-03 0:00 ` mark_lundquist
2000-11-03 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-03 0:00 ` mark_lundquist
2000-11-03 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-18 0:00 ` John Magness
2000-11-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
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