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Subject: Re: F-22 ADA Programming
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On 10/30/2014 03:33 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> 	And that is one justification for why the DoD dropped the "Ada mandate"
> -- it was concluded that the analysis/design process had improved enough to
> reduce the risk of using less strict languages {If you do enough front-end
> work, and put checks on the coding practices, you don't need as much
> compiler assistance}

Well, no. The replacement mandate (universally ignored) is to choose the
language with the lowest lifecycle costs, and justify that choice. This, we were
promised, would insure that Ada was chosen until a better language was created.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I like it when the support group complains that they have
insufficient data on mean time to repair bugs in Ada software."
Robert I. Eachus
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