[comp.lang.ada] Objectives of Ada

billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) (10/09/89)

From Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU:
>         > . . .  Is the DoD *really* committed to making Ada the
>         > primary vehicle of software engineering technology?
> 
> Ada is only a programming language, and programming is an extemely
> small part of software engineering.

    As per Richard Fairley (Software Engineering Concepts, 1985, Ch. 7,
    Page 229), Ada is part of "the technology of software engineering".  

    The question, then, is not whether Ada constitutes a vehicle of
    software engineering technology.  The question is whether Ada is 
    to become an *obsolescent* software engineering technology, just
    as COBOL did before it.


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu