From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 6 Dec 92 23:05:14 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!wor ld!srctran@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Open Systems closed to Ada? Message-ID: List-Id: >If you take a good look at STARS (as I know you profess to have done), you >will recognize much of the truly innovative work that has gone on there. If this stuff is so great, why don't I see any of the STARS vendors at CASE shows and conferences marketing and publicizing their truly innovative work? Because, no one would buy the junk the the DoD willingly accepts. Take IBM, the grand masters of hypocrisy in truly innovative technology. They have a commercial line, AD/CYCLE, which addresses the same exact problem in the real world that STARS addresses in the defense world. Not once in the past five years has IBM made any mention of Ada or STARS in any of their AD/CYCLE material, presentations or products. Why? Because IBM doesn't waste time on things no one wants to spend their money own. Remember that "metaprogramming" doesn't mean "bettaprogramming". Greg Aharonian -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178