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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Open Systems closed to Ada?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.170930.18843@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <92346.46129.LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:09:30 GMT
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- In <92346.46129.LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> LJ10891@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
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- > Fred, I lost count of the number of times you used the word "mandate" in
- >your last post, but I gather that this is a pet peeve of yours.
-
- > In all seriousness, your implication that no one would use a non-validated
- >Ada compiler, and therefore such a compiler has no value, seems suspect to me.
-
- It may seem suspect, but take a look at who the major Ada customers
- are, at least in this country. If the government won't buy off on it,
- companies probably aren't going to go to the effort of producing it.
-
- >If you would briefly grant me the assumption that the mandate was being
- >successfully enforced, would you agree with the statement that "No one can use
- >any 'C' compiler, therefore 'C' compilers are useless"? I doubt it.
-
- No, because the major customer for C has no such 'mandate'.
-
- > I disagree with the Ada mandate; however, when all is said and done, the DoD
- >is just one software customer. I doubt there's a large market for Macintosh
- >software at IBM. It hasn't kept Mac programmers from peddling their wares
- >elsewhere. If the DoD chooses to freeze THEIR technology for eleven
- >years at a pop, IT'S THEIR CHOICE (and, IMHO, one whose wisdom has yet to be
- >established).
-
- Yes, it's their choice. And it stultifies the Ada market.
-
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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