Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance

In <hyCqf.5074$mj1.1275@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jeffrey R.
Carter wrote:
> Robert Love wrote:
>
>> Lord, there is so much wrong here. Where to start. Is it even worth
>> it to try and educate the Air Force? I suppose I'll try and write
>> one of these bozos once I calm down but I would say this is a huge
>> slam against our favorite language.
>
> If we all knew how to contact these bozos, we could all write them.
> That might be more impressive than just a message from you.

And I'm just a bozo to the Air Force brass. I wonder if we have a
senior statesman who could get their attention. Richard Rheile? Tucker
Taft? Damn, do any Congressional Medal of Honor winners program in Ada?

I did write a sincere, polite letter (postal, not e-mail) to the
Secretary but I don't expect it will get past his layer of filters. I
tried to refute his points and stressed the need for good design and
software development processe. I concluded that he should have the AF
Academy software experts or other independent group investigate the real
reason why the software was a failure.
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