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Subject: Re: Current status of Ada?
From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
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On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:04:57 -0400, <adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
...
> Until the DoD, and industry in general, begins to take more of an  
> engineering
> approach
> to the development of software, we will continue to wrestle in our  
> bedclothes
> with
> the software nightmares that continue to haunt us, only to wake in the  
> morning
> and
> discover that our best efforts to control those nightmares have  
> consummated
> themselves
> in nothing more than a simple wet-dream.
>
> Richard Riehle

Hear! Hear!

And for another perspective that I consider valuable check out "Lean  
Software Strategies" by Middleton and Sutton.  It won the 2007 Shingo  
award, which Business Week has called the "Nobel Prize" of manufacturing.   
They recommend Ada not for its technical merits, but for its role in  
ensuring the integrity of the software production process. An interesting  
point of view that may resonate with some of you here.

- Ed