Re: why? US Army Ada software converted to C++?

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3BBFB4BE.C4A775B9@acm.org>, Jeffrey Carter says...
>
>Since this is in Huntsville, AL, it may be NMD related. At least one
>existing major Ada software system for NMD, developed by one of the
>subcontractors, is being rewritten in "C++" by the prime
>contractor/integrator, Boeing. All the evidence I saw indicates that
>this is solely to give Boeing more control and more of the profits for
>this project. The last I heard, there was no C++ on the project, just C
>with "//" comments.

Ahh, well it that context it might not be such a bad move. That system will
never work anyway, why not move to chew up as many development dollars as
possible? :-{

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