From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ad062b5cdc790a8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-24 20:56:26 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!world!srctran From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Air Force helping to undermine Ada In-Reply-To: joshua@Veritas.COM's message of 24 Mar 93 18:21:47 GMT Message-ID: Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Organization: The World References: <9303100635.aa26443@dsc.blm.gov> <1993Mar24.182147.10664@Veritas.COM> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 04:54:36 GMT Date: 1993-03-25T04:54:36+00:00 List-Id: >I don't think you understood the product the USAF bought. It requires >integration with other products, customizations, and additions. All of >this work must* be done in C. Since this work is programming, by buying >a product which requires, C the USAF is (in a sense) mandating C for >that integration, customization, and addition work. > >If the USAF had required that the integration, etc. work be done in ADA, >they would have gotten some other product. Or, more likely, they would >have had to pay someone to develop it all from scratch in ADA. Thus, in time it will be cheaper and cheaper (even with a warrranty for maintenance and safety) for the DoD to have developed larger and larger systems using COTS products and APIs, which all trends point to C/C++. A 10,000 user system, which the specific project is, is a moderate to large project within current definitions. More success stories like these will lead to the questioning of the Mandate inside the DoD, and probably its eventual retraction. The Mandate world will be able to ignore the outside world for only so long. Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178