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_20 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 17 Apr 93 01:27:51 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: April 1993: Ada9X mortally wounded in non-Mandated press Message-ID: List-Id: >The Business Week article is indeed inaccurate. But, what should the >Government do? Arrest the author for being wrong? I really don't >understand what Greg would have "the Ada community" do in these >circumstances... Ever hear of marketing? Ever hear of public relations? Picking up the phone and calling an editor? Placing an ad in a journal? You don't know what the Ada community should do? As an employee of MITRE, a firm that advises the Air Force in its support of the Mandate, you are telling me you have no clue what the Ada community should do for all of the bad press (or no press) that Ada is getting? You have no idea why Ada needs more visibility outside the Mandated world for the Mandate to succeed? If you guys market MITRE like you do Ada, you'd be out of business in a short time. What kind of advice do you give the Air Force? Wake up. Outside the Mandated world, Ada is dead, because of the arrogance of people inside the Mandated world. No one wants to take responibility to make sure that Ada succeeds enough across the country for the Mandate to be meaningful. Unless enough programmers and tool companies are attracted to Ada, it will be less cost-effective to program in Ada, so that the net result of the Mandate will be to make defense software development costs increase instead of decrease. Which is probably what the Ada contractors want anyways. Greg Aharonian -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178