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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9fd3d237073cee20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: drew@cs.tamu.edu (Drew Hamilton) Subject: Re: ADA not dead in DOD Date: 1995/04/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101283220 references: <51856@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> <3mmh6i$11o@stout.entertain.com> organization: Computer Science Department - Texas A&M University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-04-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3mmh6i$11o@stout.entertain.com> cjames@stout.entertain.com (Colin James III) writes: >From: cjames@stout.entertain.com (Colin James III) >Subject: Re: ADA not dead in DOD >Date: 14 Apr 1995 13:08:02 -0600 >In article <51856@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>, >Scott . Smart CDR wrote: >> Scott>>Just to show that GA and others are not totally correct when they say Scott>>that DOD management provides no support for Ada, the following is Scott>>from VADM Walt Davis, Dir Space & Electronic Warfare in CNO -- the Scott>>buyer for all Navy C4I systems, as quoted in an internal magazine Scott>>entitled "CHIPS" (April 1995): >> Stop. This gentlemen does not know what he is talking about. James>Stop. For those who do not get copies of Chips, it's a Navy puff-piece James>meant to compete with STC's CrossTalk, but on a much lower level. Clearly you don't read CrossTalk or Chips regularly or you would know that they hardly compete. Not sure what kind of insult you are leveling with the puff-piece comment, but as CDR Smart said, it is an internal magazine. Neither CrossTalk nor Chips aspire to be a refereed research journal. Both provide useful information to military personnel. James>For example, the April issue has a picture of a Vice Admr on the James>cover, and So what? James>articles about user endorsements of various MS-DOS products, and James>how to James>do this or that in Windows or Novell, etc. It's the Navy version of James>PC Computing, filled with editorial opinions from users. Which many internal readers find useful. James>(It's something that experts in "C,C++, and Ada from Houston at NASA" James>might find to be academic and stimulating when not expressing James>resentments about Windows NT or bullying others on comp.lang.ada.) Nice tacky statement which fails to address Smart's original point. The Ada situation in Defense Department is dynamic and hardly uniform. I certainly don't have the "big picture." However, one becomes better informed by getting the views of the senior leadership. So maybe reading Chips and CrossTalk may help you pull your head out of your duffel bag if you are sincerely interested in Ada usage in the Department of Defense. Drew Hamilton ************************************************* Drew Hamilton drew@cs.tamu.edu *************************************************