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- "Ada Adoption Handbook: A Program Manager's Guide",
- Version 1.0,
- SEI Technical Report CMU/SEI-87-TR-9, ESD-TR-87-110,
- May 1987
- by John Foreman and John Goodenough
- of the Software Engineering Institute.
-
- Contact the SEI JPO at 412/268-7630 to acquire a copy (this
- document is free).
-
- The PMG, while distinctly biased toward the DoD Ada effort,
- contains many reasonable answers to questions commonly raised about adopting
- Ada for use on a project. I feel that the PMG does a good job in
- identifying the issues, providing possible answers to the questions
- commonly raised (altho I may take issue with some of the answers, the
- SEI should be commended for making the effort to create the PMG and
- going on the line with their opinions), and providing pointers to
- help you in answering your questions to your own satisfaction.
-
- An outline of the PMG:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Program Manager Considerations (costs, Technical
- issues, program control, getting help)
- 3. The Need for Ada
- 4. Software Production Technology (terms, Ada compilers,
- programming support environments, forecast)
- 5. Ada Maturity and Applicability (action plans for
- various situations, use of Ada on embedded
- processors, use of Ada for real-time systems,
- use of Ada for distriubted systems)
- 6. Special-purpose languages
- 7. Mixing Ada with other languages
- 8. Software Reuse and Ada
- 9. Learning Ada: Training Implications
-
- I. Ada Working Groups and Agencies
- II. Programs Using Ada (Army, Navy, Air Force, commercial, IR&D)
- III. Ada Textbooks
- IV. Ada Compilers for target processors
-
- Comments about the "Ada Adoption Handbook: A Program Manager's
- Guide," Version 1.0 can be sent electronically to:
-
- aah.comment@sei.cmu.edu
-
-