A Survey of Computer Programming Languages Currently Used in the Department of Defense.

Abstract

This study reports on a programming language survey commissioned by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for C3I to determine how many programming languages are being used in the DoD today as compared to 20 years ago when the DoD began development of the Ada language. The sample population for this survey consisted of weapons systems taken from the 1994 Presidential Budget requests for RDT&E programs exceeding $15 million and Procurement budgets exceeding $25 million. The current DoD list of major Automated Information Systems was used as the survey sample for non-weapons systems. The survey found that over 80% of the applications in the sample were written in third generation languages. Moreover, it identified 37 third generation languages in contrast to an estimate of at least 450 general purpose languages and dialects in 1974. In weapons systems modernization, Ada is the most commonly used language.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA294001

Entities

People

  • Audrey A. Hook
  • Bill Brykczynski
  • Catherine W. Mcdonald
  • Christine Youngblut
  • Sarah H. Nash

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Application Software
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Processing Equipment
  • Programming Languages
  • Software Development
  • System Software
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Control

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computer Science.
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