Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!wrgate!amadeus!brandonl From: brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM (Brandon G. Lovested) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga gov't contract?! Summary: Ada Message-ID: <1088@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> Date: 16 Dec 89 02:30:24 GMT References: <4710006@hpfcdq.HP.COM> <482@cs.nps.navy.mil> Sender: nobody@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM Lines: 29 In article <482@cs.nps.navy.mil>, schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes: > > -- Soapbox: ON. > > -- IMHO, until there is an Ada compiler for the Amiga, a major portion of the > -- federal market will remain closed to it. > > -- Soapbox: OFF. > > Jeff Schweiger Yep, I think you're absolutely right. It is too bad. Ada has a number of advantages, but to virtually mandate 1 computer language is unwise. The advantage of coordinating development is clear, though 1 language cannot do everything, at least not everything "well". Go O.O.P.! ================================================================================ | Brandon G. Lovested | "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, | indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! brandonl@amadeus.WR.TEK.COM | My life is my own." | ================================================================================