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The impact of Ada and object-oriented design in NASA Goddard's Flight Dynamics Division

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Author	Bailey, John Stark, Mike Waligora, Sharon
Abstract	This paper presents the highlights and key findings of 10 years of use and study of Ada and object-oriented design in NASA Goddard's Flight Dynamics Division (FDD). In 1985, the Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) began investigating how the Ada language might apply to FDD software development projects. Although they began cautiously using Ada on only a few pilot projects, they expected that, if the Ada pilots showed promising results, the FDD would fully transition its entire development organization from FORTRAN to Ada within 10 years. However, 10 years later, the FDD still produced 80 percent of its software in FORTRAN and had begun using C and C++, despite positive results on Ada projects. This paper presents the final results of a SEL study to quantify the impact of Ada in the FDD, to determine why Ada has not flourished, and to recommend future directions regarding Ada. Project trends in both languages are examined as are external factors and cultural issues that affected the infusion of this technology. The detailed results of this study were published in a formal study report [1] in March of 1995. This paper supersedes the preliminary results of this study that were presented at the Eighteenth Annual Software Engineering Workshop in 1993 [2].
Starting Page	67
Ending Page	86
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10943641
DOI	10.1145/261374.261386
Journal	ACM SIGAda Ada Letters (ALET)
Volume Number	XVII
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1989-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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