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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 10 Jun 93 22:18:08 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: STARS Boeing embarassed about Ada Message-ID: List-Id: Here's another example of Ada contractors doing their best to avoid helping to foster Ada in the non-Mandated world. Why they are embarassed to be associated with Ada is beyond me, and should not be tolerated as long as the people are on the taxpayer dole. Case in point. The June 1993 issue of Software Magazine has a nice article on the importance of software repositories, and the rebirth of the repository marketplace. As usual, all of the language references are to C/C++ and Smalltalk, reinforcing to the non-Mandated world the success of these languages. ANyways, Boeing's role in the STARS program is mentioned. Here are some quotes: Boeing Computer Services has been using Digital's STARS CDD/Repository in it work on the STARS project. STARS' goal is the improvement of the software procurement/development process at the Department of Defense (DoD). The DoD's ARPA is sponsoring the STARS project. According to William Hodges, STARS program manager for Boeing, the goal was to "build software faster, cheaper, and better". Boeing realized that this goal required a repository-based environment. When the project first began, Boeing was going to build its own repository. However, in 1990, the company decided to go with CDD/Repository because of its integrated suite of tools. [.. some stuff about Boeing's SEE and DEC's CDD with regards to OO encapsulation, process tools, and model design] The STARS project needed the repository to support resuability. The project is based on the concept of metaprogramming (architecture-based reuse). "We cannot live without a repository, Hodges said, explaining that SEE was incomplete without it. For example, Boeing uses the repository to model system requirements, and the repository automatically provides version control and easily supports requirements reusability, said Hodges. "Documentation becomes a synthesis issue rather than a creation issue", he remarked. Boeing intends to have the SEE available for evaluation on a DoD project by October. ============================================================================== Why is Will Hodges so embarassed to have Boeing be associated with Ada? All these words in print, not once is Ada mentioned. Given Ada's near death in the non-Mandated world, any opportunity to plug the language should be seized by those receving taxdollars to say the love the language. And if this country has to be reduced to ordering these STARS contractors to promote the Ada language when they get the chance, than we are in deep trouble. That the DoD allows its Ada contractors to dis the Ada language is inexcusable. Will someone please email Will and tell him that Ada is spelled "A" "d" "a". -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178