Re: Current status of Ada?

[Ed Falis <falis@verizon.net>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> Ed Falis a �crit :
>
>> Richard, you misinterpreted the sense of my comment: I don't see how
>> anyone could have interpreted Paige's memo as anything other than
> DoD
>> walking away from Ada.
>>
> What the memo really said was that the most cost-effective language in
> the long term should be chosen. It intended to be quite favorable to
> Ada, but the only part that people saw was that Ada was no more
> mandated.
>

Which does not contradict my statement in the context of the times.
Despite the superficially "fair" wording of the memo, it was almost
universally interpreted as DoD walking away from Ada.  One of my
colleagues was at a meeting recently where some yoyo got up and said
"Thank God we got rid of Ada"!  Probably because that was the "cool"
view among those who felt oppressed by the mandate (largely in terms of
their short-term profit margins).

- Ed