From: heatwole@his.com (Kevin D. Heatwole)
Subject: Re: Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada
Date: 1996/09/11
Date: 1996-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <heatwole-1109961123340001@news.his.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 50p6ldINNall@faatcrl.faa.gov
gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) wrote:
>The FAA no longer permits Ada on new procurements, subsequent to the AAS
>debacle. It isn't often one gets to waste $6 billion. Only ANSI C and
>C++ are permitted, except where existing systems are being modified.
>There was a newsgroup debate on the wisdom of this decision, but the FAA
>has in fact backed away from Ada.
>
>Joe Gwinn
I just couldn't hardly believe that this statement was true, so I asked around.
According to my sources, there is no FAA-wide directive against the use of Ada.
In fact, the FAA Enroute program manager had a 3-month or so task force of
various companies/consultants involved in the enroute world. The purpose
was to establish a direction for enroute programs. The result, from what
I have been able to tell, is that the Enroute FAA programs have recommended
Ada 95 as the first choice of languages, with C++ a possibility if there emerges
a clear industry standard. This "direction" on what language to use was
not the main focus of the task force, but apparently Ada more than held
up against C++ (although there were some very vocal members of the task
force that originally argued for C++).
Of course, it remains to be seen if this recommendation will have any actual
impact on future enroute work.
I would love to see you followup with more information supporting your
statements. If such a prejudice against Ada exists within the FAA, I want
to know about it.
Kevin Heatwole
OC Systems, Inc.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-24 0:00 Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Robert B. Love
1996-08-26 0:00 ` John Woodruff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Chris Brand
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole [this message]
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Bob Noel
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada (C-based COTS no excuse...) David Emery
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Sandy McPherson
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