Re: SBIRS, Ada and Ignorance



In article <1135386734.859963.112280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> One thing that might be helpful to include in any correspondence to
> anyone in a position to help, would be a list of questions they could
> ask which would help them to see that the Air Force's civilian
> leadership's statements are on their face, incredibly nonsensical to
> anyone who knows anything about programming or managing large
> projects.
>
> Questions like:
>
> Were the specifications from which the Ada programming was to be done
> complete before coding began?
>
> Has anyone independent of the vendor or project management made an
> assessment of why the project has gone so wrong?
>
> How is it than many of the largest and most complex project have been
> successfully programmed in Ada?

How is it that the European space agency doesn't have these problems ?
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