[Shacs] A nod in the direction of our favorite fedora-wearingfriend...

[PILLING, ANDREW ALEXANDER]

So about that GNAT Ada 2005 GAP Package I've been pushing Dr. Cooper and
you to add to your repertoire as well as the course materials offered to
students here...
http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/ada_2005
http://www.adacore.com/home/ada_answers/resources
http://www.adacore.com/home/academia
http://www.adacore.com/home/academia/gap

I really think you'd have a lot more success making lifelong converts to
the Ada philosophy if y'all pursued this.
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: shacs-bounces at shsu.edu [mailto:shacs-bounces at shsu.edu] On Behalf
Of David Burris
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:34 PM
To: 'shacs at shsu.edu '
Subject: Re: [Shacs] A nod in the direction of our favorite
fedora-wearingfriend...

Thanks John. 
Now that you mention it, we have several individuals at the project 
manager level or above who learned Ada at your Alma Mater.  I used to 
teach Ada in the summer with emphasis on its multi-tasking abilities and

program coordination abilities (not this silly threading nonsense).  
They have many interesting stories to tell regarding lessons learned 
from those "other" languages.  They do not believe in "Programmer Gump" 
literature adorning the hall ways at present!  They know I would never 
be seduced by the dark, evil side of the force.

Typical labs were to shot down incoming missiles mirving war heads fired

by the evil war lords.  The probability of a successful kill went down 
as a function of the distance at which the missile was detected.  We 
lost a lot of valuable space explorers in attacks by the dark side.  :(

But the survivors fought on to victory with many going to Lockheed, NASA

support groups, and European companies.

You got to love it when your right!!!
:)  :)  :0  :)  Yea Team!!!

Go Kats!!!

John M. Collier wrote:
> I'm sure most of you have already seen this, but apparently somebody
at Lockheed Martin must have
> studied under Burris...
>
>
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/15/1554234&from=rss
>
> Apparently Ada makes for projects that are on time, under budget, and
secure to boot.  I saw no
> mention of "The Great Unwashed", but maybe they're just trying to be
polite.  If anyone sees
> Burris dancing down the hall shouting "I told you so...", now you know
why.  oh, and if anyone is
> witness to the aforementioned dancing.... please post pictures to
shacs list.
>
> JMC
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