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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,707ffbf6ec9d1855 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance Date: 24 Dec 2005 03:25:31 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <20051222102521644-0600@news.airmail.net> <1135386734.859963.112280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1135416234 12415 192.135.80.34 (24 Dec 2005 09:23:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7003 Date: 2005-12-24T03:25:31-06:00 List-Id: In article <1135386734.859963.112280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, "Steve Whalen" writes: > One thing that might be helpful to include in any correspondence to > anyone in a position to help, would be a list of questions they could > ask which would help them to see that the Air Force's civilian > leadership's statements are on their face, incredibly nonsensical to > anyone who knows anything about programming or managing large > projects. > > Questions like: > > Were the specifications from which the Ada programming was to be done > complete before coding began? > > Has anyone independent of the vendor or project management made an > assessment of why the project has gone so wrong? > > How is it than many of the largest and most complex project have been > successfully programmed in Ada? How is it that the European space agency doesn't have these problems ?