Re: Are 'best' universities being targeted

[agate!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!source.asset.com!shilling@ucbvax.Berke ley.EDU (Keith Shillington)]

In article <SRCTRAN.93Jul30225101@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
 Aharonian) writes:
>
>Why make students do something the DoD refuses to do?  ...
> ...
>So don't ask students to do what the DoD doesn't want to do.

Greg! You're so ramped up on the DoD being bad and evil (which it may
well be) you've neglected the segment of industry that has a ghost of a
chance of actually making a difference (read progress) in the world of
software.  You know full well that NOTHING the DoD does is optimized for
cost or profitability, as that is not their driving motivation; so
writing "good" software is not in their immediate interest (hence the
'Mandate').  If our favorite language (Ada in case anyone got lost in
the newsgroups) is to be a long lived success is it up to the
Honeywells, Boeings, CAE-Links and bless their blue hide, IBMs (and
dozens of other organizations whom I do not mean to snub) to develop
process, and ultimately reusable (Ada) software.  It is up to us
educators to build the structure of thinking in the next wave of
creators.  So Greg, please either take your tongue out of your cheek, or
chomp down, hard.

Yours most respectfully:

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