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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny08.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail From: Ed Falis Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Message-ID: References: <7744bf.vg4.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Pineapple News 0.9.13 [PLAID BETA], BeOS (Intel) 6.2.0 X-Program-URL: http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ X-Registered-To: Edward Falis Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:37:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.184.110.39 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny08 1188419851 71.184.110.39 (Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:37:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:37:31 EDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1596 Date: 2007-08-29T20:37:31+00:00 List-Id: 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