emery%d74sun@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (06/23/87)
(The following is only a piece of speculative fiction; any similarity between this and actual DoD Policy is only accidental) Dateline: June 22, 1990, Washington, DC. The Pentagon announced today that, in order to solve the software crisis and the shortage of trained Ada programmers, that the DoD will take advantage of developments in natural language processing. All DoD systems entering Advanced Development will be required to write their software in natural language. However, until production-quality natural language processors become available, the DoD will require the use of English as a PDL. dave emery emery@mitre-bedford.arpa