Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community

[pacbell.com!well!well.sf.ca.us!jcc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (John Christopher C]

I've always felt a mandate was inappropriate.  The DoD should simply
leak a clever story, which could go something like this:

"Ada was not developed by Ichbiah, Firth, et. al as the result of
a conscious engineering effort.  In fact, Ada was hacked together
by a couple of guys who needed a real-time OS for their PDP-8.  The
real-time OS was needed so they could play games, and do a little
programming on the side..."

This should be enough to cause at least several pages worth of ads
for Ada products in PC-Magazine, followed by the inevitable ush of
third-party books, tutorials, etc., etc.....  ;-)