From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 2 Sep 93 19:08:37 GMT From: sarge!sarge!esther@uunet.uu.net (Esther Lumsdon) Subject: Re: Computational scientists ignoring and ignored by Ada Message-ID: List-Id: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: > For example, one of the most heavily reused pieces of DoD R&D software >is a program called Lowtran. Yet not once in ten years of Ada spending has >anyone funded its translation into Ada, which at 20,000 lines of code, 10,000 >of which are tables of propagation coefficients, would not be very expensive >to translate into Ada. Doing so would help promote DoD R&D software into >Ada - if anyone really cared. Lowtran is an interesting model. However, you ignore the political considerations of who in DoD-related research uses what model. It's impossible to make any sort of statement about 'heavy reuse' and possible benefits of translating a model to Ada without looking at the political considerations. Some of the people who collect a copy of Lowtran do it only to compare Lowtran to their favorite model, so they can blast Lowtran in their publications. You sound completely naive about how models really get used. -- -- Esther Lumsdon, not speaking for Verdix. esther@verdix.com "It's time to cut bait and talk turkey. It takes 2 snakes to cross a puddle. You have to bale hay while the tractor is warm." ---- either H. Ross Perot or Dave Barry