Re: INFO-ADA Digest V93 #359

[world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

Dave Emery rants:
>The Ada community (despite Greg's rantings) has been very active in
>sharing code and reuse.  Unfortunately, much of this code required net
>access, which was not common in many production shops until recently.
>The ATIP program, in particular, has focused towards producing
>bindings and reusable components (e.g.  the ADAR packages for decimal
>arithmetic.)  

 Ever hear of CDROMs?  If the DoD was interested in getting its Ada codes
out there, it would throw all of ASSET, STARS, DSRO, VCOE, KBSA, WAM,
CAMP, etc onto a CDROM and really promote software reuse.  The DoD has
been very inactive in promoting software reuse, unless it's the kind of
socialist bureaucratic control system setup by ASSET.

 Why doesn't MITRE apply for a contract to learn about CDROMs, and then
go instruct ASSET, DSRO, VCOE and all the others on this technology?
Every other agency in the government is doing it.  Why can't the amply
funded DoD take advantage of CDROMs.  Rant about that, not about me.

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