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From: Steve  Marotta <smarotta@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Current status of Ada?
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:33:34 -0000
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On Aug 22, 4:44 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What I want to say is that every time a similar question is raised,
> the Ada community tries to "pump up" or visually inflate itself by
> mentioning some nebulous DoD or otherwise classified activity. This is
> cheating - the Ada community is effectively as strong as the number of
> people that are able and willing to talk about their experiences.
> Everything that is outside of this is just as useful as hydrogen on
> Jupiter.

Thanks to everyone for their responses. To your point, Maciej, I
should clarify the nature of my interest in Ada usage. I am not
particularly interested in how much Ada is being used in brand-new
code. I am more interested in knowing how much legacy Ada code the DoD
or other government agencies are sitting on, either maintaining or
using as-is.

Thanks,
Steve