RE: is ada dead?

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Jeffrey Carter et al.

One very expensive judgment, which includes negligence, against a software
vendor will suffice to make vendors conscious that they are legally required
to use the appropriate tools to create their products.

One of the major problems is that there appears to be a dearth of data on
the reliability of software and costs associated with the use of individual
programming languages. I believe I know about all of the Ada vs. C data,
which is minuscule compared to what should be available. The worst culprit
is the US DoD, who insists on good software practices (CMU levels), but who
evidently maintains no statistics on the use of software manufacturing
tools. Building an antiballistic missile is an extremely difficult
engineering job and may even be impractical. However, if DoD is going to
attempt it, a significant investment in Ada would be prudent.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Jeffrey Carter
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:46 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: is ada dead?


Andrzej Lewandowski wrote:
>
> But almost everybody is using Java and almost non\body is using Ada.
>

Both parts of this conjunction are demonstrably false.

--
Jeff Carter
"You cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail