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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-30 12:41:19 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <39FDB80A.728339A9@averstar.com> Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:41:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.215.70.239 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 972938479 216.215.70.239 (Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:41:19 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:41:19 CST Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1642 Date: 2000-10-30T20:41:19+00:00 List-Id: "Tucker Taft" 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?