Ted Holden's disinformation

[William Thomas Wolfe, 2847]

>From ted at grebyn.com (Ted Holden):
>  [alleged problem with Ada:]
>      o    Major project many months behind schedule (e.g.
>           STASNFINS, space telescope, WISS etc.)

   That's interesting, Ted... according to the Proceedings of the
   Eighth Annual National Conference on Ada Technology (p. 140),
   STANFINS-R was completed on time and within budget, and it was
   observed that the Ada code ran significantly faster than its COBOL
   counterpart.  This is despite the fact that STANFINS-R had to take 
   raw COBOL programmers and train them to be Ada Software Engineers, 
   despite the fact that a CICS binding did not exist when the project 
   began (and therefore had to be created during the project), and despite 
   the fact that a Datacom/DB interface also had to be forced into existence.

   Not only was the Army's Information Systems Software Development Center 
   tremendously pleased with the results, the Air Force has just announced 
   its decision to use STANFINS-R as its financial software system as well.   

   Any other flat-out lies you'd like to spread?


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe at hubcap.clemson.edu