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From: jenks@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 10:13:00 EDT
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Paul Chamberlain wrote:

> I have heard (assuming it's true, it could be important in this discussion)
> that very little is actually being written in Ada because, if the software
> currently exists in another language, DoD will allow an exception.  That
> just about covers any project you can imagine.  How often do you write a
> program and start with an empty file?
> 
[...]
> 
> 				Paul Chamberlain
> 				Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
> 				ihnp4!sys1!cpe!tif

I heard that rumor, too.  (Rumor^2?)  However, I also heard that DoD
will not be doing this for long (1992 ?), so we'd better get our
universal translators working to change all of our old libraries into
Ada.

Will Ada be the language of the Space Station?  I heard yet another
rumor that Lisp *will*not* be allowed on the SS.

        -- Ken Jenks
		Graduating MS: Aero/Astro Engineering (BS: Computer Science),
		Looking for a full-time manned-space job, starting 6/88,
		University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

			(Resume available on request)

jenks@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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P.S.  Why do we only hear rumors, and never facts?  Do we fear damaging our
	credibility by telling things that turn out not to be true?