Re: ARPA still undermining Ada

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <380tov$hlh@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu>,
Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Actually Mike, I think a "full-bore" version of Ada-Ed could have appeared
>significantly before 1989 if the support had been there for such an 
>effort.
>
>I first started talking about the idea of a GCC-like effort for Ada quite
>a bit earlier than 1989!
>
That's all the sadder. Too bad the Powers that Be were not really
understanding what it took to propagate a language. I do think that
your efforts must have been pretty quiet, though; at least nobody I
was speaking to at the time around the academic world knew about it.
Perhaps some more concerted lobbying might have gotten the message
across to AJPO or whoever it was you were speaking to.

I suppose the vendors would have screamed bloody murder then, too.
Oh well, it's all water under the bridge now.

Mike Feldman
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