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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A scapegoat once again :(
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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."
>>
>> It�s 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.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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