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From: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Legislative Mandate for Ada
Message-ID: <9701@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 90 17:00:08 GMT
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Reply-To: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson)
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In article <9700@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) writes:
>probably be fairly cheap (as things go) to do so.  I can see the metric
>the bean counters are going to use to check compliance:
>
>                          Total KLOC - Ada KLOC
>                          ---------------------
>                              Total KLOC
>
>If the percentage doesn't approach 100 fast enough then they will mandate
>mindless translations.

Sheesh, you can tell I'm in government.  How about if it doesn't approach
zero fast enough (Crosby always wanted metrics to trend to zero...).

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