Re: Admiral Tuttle

[agate!overload.lbl.gov!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!news host.anu.edu.au!cairo!gsc@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Sean Case)]

srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:

>I guess the grapevine stories I have heard about the Navy being against
>Ada are true.

The Navy people I've met who are "against Ada" just don't want to rewrite
existing systems from scratch. Tuttle, on the other hand, wants to rewrite
them in C, which would be in many ways a backwards step from CMS-2.

And I believe he said last year that he wanted to junk all the existing
embedded systems hardware and recode everything to use commercial
computers. So he's made this sort of statement before.

Sean Case
(I don't work for ANU, and I don't speak for my employers.)
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Sean Case                                              gsc@coombs.anu.edu.au
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