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- From: cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov
- Subject: Re: IBM & Air Traffic Control
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.155811.9958@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1992Dec12.002523.27592@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:58:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.002523.27592@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) writes:
- >
- >In today's NYT business section, there was an article about the government
- >threatening to cancel a $3.8 billion contract with IBM to overhaul the
- >air traffic control system. It says
- >
- > "Because of a software foul-up, the contract with the FAA has already
- > suffered an 18 month delay...The problems involve testing and integrating
- > software in what is called the initial sector suite system..."
- >
- >This seems like a very large and embarasing screwup.
-
- Unfortuantely this will probably give the Chicken Littles of Ada another reason
- for Ada "falling", I mean, "failing" even though it is not a language problem.
- There are other factors involved such as the lack of a stable development
- environment and the transition to yet another IBM platform in the middle of
- development. Given any project in any language, this would play havoc on any
- schedule.
-
-
- >
- >Anyone know more about the project. I thought the air traffic control stuff
- was
- >being done "mostly" in Ada; if not, anyone know what language was used. Even
- >better, anyone know what is "really" behind the delay.
- >
- >Rich Pattis
- >
- >
- >--
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Richard E. Pattis "Programming languages are like
- > Department of Computer Science pizzas - they come in only "too"
- > and Engineering sizes: too big and too small."
- >
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