Re: Silicon Valley techies suit up Army with sleeker gear

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Just a side-bar on this one. It can often be extremely difficult and costly
to change a language version on an existing DoD system - depending on
exactly what the nature of the systems is. If the system has really high
reliability requirements and expensive testing/verification needs, you can
easily get to the point where you can't even accept a later release of the
same compiler you are using. So it isn't always fair to pick on a contractor
for not jumping to accept Ada95.

MDC
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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
news:3C675F89.2BC474E@adaworks.com...
> job they were supposed to do.    Also,  the "old government programming
> language" was probably Ada 83, not Ada 95.   I am often amazed to see how
> many DoD contractors have still avoided upgrading their software
> development processes to Ada 95 and still use Ada 83.
>