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=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 10 Jul 93 14:14:12 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Other things Ralph Crafts says Message-ID: List-Id: For all the barbs I receive about being uncongeneal, insulting and tiresome in my efforts to get the DoD to be serious about its software engineering policies vis-a-vis Ada, as opposed to Ralph Craft's noble gentlemenness, here are some of Ralph's comments from an interview that are more uncongeneal than most of the things I say: Government Computer News: 5/10/93, page 14 In an interview with Ralph Crafts, he states: "There's been no continuity, enforcement or explanation to the people in the field who are supposed to implement the Ada requirement. I've been with several organizations over the last few months, and there's confusion, resentment and anger because they get the word one way one month and then some high-level person comes in and says, 'Just go ahead and do it this way. Ignore the mandate until we get caught'." "The Ada waiver process is ludicrous. There are claims by the services that they are fully behind Ada, and they have granted no waivers or a handful of waivers over the last couple of year. Well, that's a really nice facade because people who don't want to use Ada don't bother to go through the waiver process. They go off and do what they want and hope they don't get caught until they have so much invested in it that they can't be told to stop. It's interesting that people can just ignore the Ada Mandate with impunity, and they will go off and require the use of C and C++." So when I make claims about internal DoD hypocrisy about Ada, it is nothing more than a reaffirmation of statements from my favorite DoD Ada policy basher, Ralph. For a man who says we should stop laying blame, these are real blaming statements. ---- Right now the DoD has absolutely no idea the true feelings inside the DoD with regards to Ada. Sure there are strident supporters, strident detractors, people on the fence, and people not even paying attention. But until the DoD knows the distribution of support for Ada, guys like General Paige will be unable to plan out anything to make Ada policies more successful. It's like fighting a war without knowing about your enemy or your enemy's terrain. And as long as the DoD doesn't do such a study, I claim it is one more sign that DoD commitment to Ada is contradictory. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178