What Might Have Been Reuel S. Alder Publisher F or some, the mandate to use Ada was met with the same enthusiasm a child displays for broccoli. Many excuses were invented to avoid complying with the Ada mandate. Humans are naturally resistant to change.
Many software engineers are no different.
In acknowledging this human tendency, I mentioned to former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Lloyd K. Mosemann II that he needed to take advantage of the engineering culture to speed the acceptance of Ada. If you give them a new toy they will take it home, disassemble it and play with it until they understand every detail. To facilitate the adoption of Ada, it is necessary to provide every software engineer with an Ada compiler. Buy it for them. Let them take it home.