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From: Howard Verne <verneh@delphi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Evaporating Jovial
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 95 22:39:50 -0500
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Date: 1995-01-07T22:39:50-05:00
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Steve Wall <smwall@pica.army.mil> writes:
 
>Case in point:  The inertial platform for the self propelled howitzer
>I work on is being modified for incorporation of a GPS receiver.
>The code is in Jovial.  If this code was ever going to be maintained
>by the Gov't we'd have specified Ada.
 
WHen was the code originally written? I bet it was before production Ada
compilers were available. Since the government rearely maintains inertial
system software, is it really worth paying to have the entire program rewritten
in Ada???