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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Re: Ada on SSF
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:48:54 GMT
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- -From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- -Subject: Re: Automated space station construction
- -Date: 14 Nov 92 14:34:54 GMT
- -Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
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- ->From article <1992Nov12.044348.827@ke4zv.uucp>, by gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman):
- ->> Military COBOL and Intel processors, FRED IS DOOMED. :-) :-)
-
- -I called Ada military COBOL because it's almost as wordy. Actually I
- -like Ada and have coded some serious applications in it. It's C++ with
- -an attitude. :-)
-
- A recently-read anecdote:
-
- A contractor, assigned to program a military system, applied for and was
- granted the usual waiver to write the code in assembly language rather than
- Ada. When the job was nearly complete, a higher-up decided that there was
- insufficient justification and cancelled the waiver, so the contractor had
- to go back and write the code in Ada.
-
- To the great surprise of the contractor, not only was the Ada version much
- quicker and easier to write than the assembly version, but the resulting
- machine language was more compact *and* ran faster!
-
- One might almost speculate that Ada compilers have been improving in the last
- few years, and that some of the old Ada jokes are not as relevant as they
- once were.
-
- (Now, if they could only figure out how to program the Difference Engine
- in Ada! :-)
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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