Re: Ada in Iraq

[Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

John R. Strohm wrote:
> Boeing faced EXACTLY those problems on the 777 project.  In particular, the
> brake controller .......: even though they had to start late, and even
> though they had to train people from scratch, and even though they had to
> throw away their earlier efforts, they STILL came in on schedule and under
> budget.
> 
> General Dynamics faced EXACTLY those problems with F-16C/D development,
> although they were using JOVIAL J73.  They had some limited experience with
> JOVIAL J3B on F-16A/B, but nowhere near enough to be at critical mass.  They
> also had to contract out development of the JOVIAL J73 compilers: there were
> none in existence at the time the project started.

The naysayers had proclaimed the AN/BSY-2 project was
doomed because (among other reasons) of the learning curve
for Ada.  Five years later, folks were pointing to Ada
as the reason for the project's success