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: 27 Jul 93 03:03:25 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Office Naval Research seemingly not interested in Ada Message-ID: List-Id: I recently came across an ONR report on a "Workshop in Experimental Computer Science" held in Palo Alto in Ocotober 1991. ONR sponsored the workshop, with the help of ARPA and the NSF. The report I read was 49 pages, and covered an equal mix of state of the art research in hardware design and software design. Nowhere did I see Ada mentioned in the proceedings. Nowhere. Given the nature of the workshop, and the central role of Ada in all future DoD software efforts, the ONR should have insured that Ada was discussed in the context of the workshop. It wasn't because they didn't. Interestingly, there was 5 representatives from the computer science efforts at Carnegie Mellon University (where much advanced software and hardware is done), and none from their 'buddies' across the street at the Software Engineering Institute. Why SEI has never been able to work with CMU is a tragedy - imagine if MACH was being developed in Ada. (I guess the hostility gossip must be true.) Anyways, the ONR dropped the ball here on promoting Ada with its own money, and apparently with Pentagon approval - more of the "don't ask - don't tell" toleration of Mandate violations. Two DoD people participated - Gary Koob at the NRL (koob@itd.nrl.navy.mil) and Stephen Squires at DARPA (squires@darpa.mil). You might want to email these guys and find out what's up. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178