From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A scapegoat once again :(
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:20:54 +0200
Date: 2011-05-20T18:20:54+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4qxntk9qmk1$.srwmvfu75jeo$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ir629g$l4s$1@speranza.aioe.org
On Fri, 20 May 2011 08:44:48 -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 5/20/2011 8:13 AM, Britt Snodgrass wrote:
>> Seen on DailyTech today:
>>
>> http://www.dailytech.com/F22+Upgrades+Over+Budget+and+Behind+Schedule+F35+May+Cost+1T+in+Operating+Costs/article21692.htm
>>
>> "The cause of the delay in delivery stems from the programming
>> language used called Ada. The Ada language was once a DoD standard,
>> but the use of the language has waned in the last 15 years. Analyst
>> Loren Thompson from the Lexington Institute said, "It tends to impede
>> quick upgrades to the system to which it is the base software."
>>
>> ItοΏ½s really sad and disturbing to read such an incorrect and
>> uninformed statement. How could Ada "impede quick upgrades" unless
>> they really mean that the coders they've been hiring recently are
>> intimidated by compiler warnings.
>
> Compared to updating one's Javascript and Matlab scripts and such,
> yes, I completely agree with the author, Ada takes more effort to
> upgrade, since must recompile things! Very annoying thing to have
> to do just to upgrade software.
That reminds me an old saying about training astronauts to climb trees,
that gets them closer to the Moon.
He probably meant that upgrades written in C or Java do not work and
customers are refusing to upgrade from old working Ada software, a boring
obstacle indeed.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 15:13 A scapegoat once again :( Britt Snodgrass
2011-05-20 15:22 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-05-20 17:00 ` Shark8
2011-06-01 16:40 ` jonathan
2011-05-20 15:31 ` jonathan
2011-05-20 16:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-05-20 15:44 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2011-05-20 15:59 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-05-20 16:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-20 17:56 ` Phil Clayton
2011-05-21 8:06 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-21 7:59 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-20 16:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-05-20 16:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-05-20 20:47 ` Simon Wright
2011-05-21 8:07 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-21 2:45 ` Robert Love
2011-05-21 8:19 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2011-05-22 9:47 ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-23 11:39 ` Gautier write-only
2011-05-23 12:25 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-05-23 15:15 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-05-24 7:41 ` Rick
2011-05-24 10:11 ` AdaMagica
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