From: merlin@annwfn.com (Fred McCall)
Subject: Re: Eiffel for DoD development?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 07:38:03 -0400
Date: 1994-10-12T07:38:03-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85CC1A35BB4@annwfn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 376a55$5af@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
In <376a55$5af@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM David Weller writes:
>I agree completely with this. There should be sufficient flexibility
>in prototype work for people to explore alternative languages,
>architectures, etc. Should that move out into the realm of
>long-lived, maintained software for the DoD? No. Emphatically no.
>You're welcome to disagree with me on this. Counterarguments,
>however, won't change my opinion.
In other words, don't cloud the issue with facts. Your mind is made
up. Do you still wonder why I object to the Ada Mandate and the type of
thinking (like this) that it seems to engender?
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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1994-10-12 11:38 ` Fred McCall [this message]
1994-10-22 21:12 Eiffel for DoD development? Test Account
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1994-10-14 12:35 ` HElliott
1994-10-14 17:33 ` Thomas Hood 913-4501
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1994-10-12 17:48 ` David Emery
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1994-09-22 15:19 gjennings
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1994-09-09 18:48 ` Eiffel for DoD development? (Was Re: Why Commit to Eiffel?) David Weller
1994-09-20 11:10 ` Eiffel for DoD development? Wayne Dernoncourt
1994-09-20 14:26 ` Ted Dennison
1994-09-20 17:18 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-24 18:44 ` Fred McCall
1994-09-30 13:38 ` Kevin Weise
1994-10-03 23:01 ` Richard Riehle
1994-10-04 5:18 ` Gregory Aharonian
1994-10-04 14:49 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-04 19:24 ` Dave Ceely
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1994-10-11 10:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
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[not found] ` <CxCCv0.999@actrix.gen.nz>
1994-10-11 13:17 ` Robb Nebbe
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[not found] ` <377864$tv@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
1994-10-12 11:20 ` Joseph Skinner
1994-10-14 20:02 ` Richard Riehle
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[not found] ` <37942s$8b1@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
1994-10-12 13:12 ` David Emery
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[not found] ` <379632$9to@starbase.neosoft.com>
1994-10-13 11:42 ` Robert M. Wilkinson
1994-10-13 14:28 ` Robert Dewar
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