Open Letter to CBM
10-Oct-91 22:50:33
Sb: #15256-Open Letter to CBM
Fm: Jeff Schweiger 74236,1645
To: Harold W. Grigdesby 76304,3030
The present version of the Ada mandate is law, part of Public Law 101-511:
"Sec. 8092. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, after June 1,
1991, where cost effective, all Department of Defense software shall be
written in the programming language Ada, in the absence of special
exemption by an official designated by the Secretary of Defense."
BTW, those exemptions, and determinations that Ada isn't cost effective,
are not easy to get. The situation is that to not use Ada, one must prove
why Ada can't be used for a particular application in the DoD.
Jeff Schweiger