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: 103376,7bb826ef912955b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr22.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: state of Ada / Paige memo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.0.252 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr22.news.prodigy.net 1188521290 ST000 68.94.0.252 (Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:48:10 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:48:10 EDT X-UserInfo1: SCSYASZETRRACPD[MZHLN\TDFZ\@@FXLM@TDOCQDJ@_@FNHCYFWUQBKZQLYJX\_ITFD_KFVLUN[DOM_A_NSYNWPFWNS[XV\I]PZ@BQ[@CDQDPCL^FKCBIPC@KLGEZEFNMDYMKHRL_YYYGDSSODXYN@[\BK[LVTWI@AXGQCOA_SAH@TPD^\AL\RLGRFWEARBM Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:48:04 -0500 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1611 Date: 2007-08-30T19:48:04-05:00 List-Id: Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > Ed Falis wrote: > >> By the way, how many of the "overall life cycle cost analyses" >> recommended by the memo to decide the right language do you think >> actually happened in more than a desultory fashion? I'm not aware of >> any, and I've worked for Ada vendors for the last 25 years. > > > The fact that this requirement is not enforced is the true evidence of > the DOD's attitude towards Ada and SW eng in general. I deal with DOD a lot. I don't think this is generally true. Industry rebellion had something to do with it (ready trained supply of C programmers (er hackers)). > -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford