At 07:50 AM 4/7/1999 , Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: >Roger: > >> I was rather shocked to learn that the Navy (at least for one program) is >> requiring that all software -not- be written in Ada. I asked if that >> included COTS, and, at least from a second-hand source, the answer was "yes". > >Are you sure the real reason is that they need data to prove >that a pure Ada project is cheaper than a non-Ada project? > Quite sure. I was told that none of the software could be written in Ada, even if it came as part of a COTS product. I believe at least part of the reason is that this manager thinks that Ada-knowledgeable people are too scarce to be able to maintain the system for a reasonable cost. Roger Racine