Here's another great article about the FAA AAS mess up. Here's something new to me on this project:
The overambitious agenda was aggravated by excessive faith in new technologies. Among other things, AAS was supposed to be a showcase for Unix-based distributed computing and for development in Ada, a programming language created by the Air Force that became the state-sponsored religion in object-oriented technology, itself a relatively young methodology for writing code in self-contained, reusable chunks. IBM tried to use Ada to enforce discipline on the project by making developers outline a design in high-level code, then fill in the blanks. But this was no match for an environment of where the FAA kept changing its requirements.
Eh, eh, eh, you can change projects, but it's just darn hard changing people. History sometime just can't stop repeating itself, after all...
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