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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Ada in CACM
From: Tom Timberlake <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:52:33 -0800
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[log in to unmask] wrote:

>"The Realities of Software Technology Payoffs" in the February
>1999 Communications of the ACM surveys studies of actual results
>from various software productivity improvement technologies.  It
>says there are "too few studies and the benefits don't match the
>claims", but does mention one positive result from SEL for
>OO+Ada+reuse.

Positive results in the study, but not in the outcome.  NASA Goddard
decided, in spite of the report, to abandon Ada in favor of C/C++




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