From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,563d1b715d872ad1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-07 17:10:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why? US Army Ada software converted to C++? Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <061020011935502631%demery@cox.rr.com> <7xTv7.11227$IY3.8208030@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <20011007141253.G6134-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <3BC0D083.546674E5@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1002499845 19805 129.241.83.82 (8 Oct 2001 00:10:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 00:10:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13882 Date: 2001-10-08T00:10:45+00:00 List-Id: On Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:00:22 GMT, James Rogers wrote: > Brian Rogoff wrote: >> >> Indeed. And all of this talk of switching to C++ for weapons systems is >> scary. I guess we can be thankful that the DOD hasn't switched to Perl, >> yet... > > Not Perl, but there has been movement toward Java. Oh? Not VB either? Do they want to shot missiles from a web page using IE on their nice Windows NT run ships? ;-) Preben