Re: THAAD Study on Ada Viability

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"Robert Dewar" <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:91aejd$jgr$1@nnrp1.deja.com...

: Individual programs may have mandated specific tool
: sets, but the "Pentagon" never did anything of the
: kind.

Well, IIRC they did try (the Navy with the ALS/N, the Air Force with AIE),
but most program managers wouldn't take on the risk.

: Even early in Ada days, many different
: environments, IDE's, architectures, and Ada compilers
: were in use, and only a fraction used Vax'es and
: DEC Ada 83. Now the fraction using this obsolete
: technology is much smaller (yes, of course we know
: that Ken Garlington is stuck in such an environment
: :-) but he is the first to know that that does not
: mean everyone else in defense is similarly stuck.

Actually, we are gradually getting ourselves "unstuck" (at some cost), in
part because almost no one provides tools for this environment anymore.
Unfortunately, the development environment obsolescence issue has people so
frightened that they want to move away from anything with a "military"
history -- including Ada.