Re: Current status of Ada?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 28 Sie, 09:58, roderick.chap...@googlemail.com wrote:

> Perhaps you
> don't think it counts becuase it's based in the UK?

This is an interesting observation.

I might not be the most informed in the subject, but I have an
impression that Ada is currently better supported in Europe than in
US.
Some French universities use Ada quite heavily. I also have some
signals from other European countries where students choose Ada as a
vehicle for their automatics projects.

>From the "spectacular projects department", high-speed trains come to
mind. Of course I mean - European high-speed trains.

The last conference on Ada (and thereabouts) was held in Geneva.

Some of the frequent posters on this group work in Europe as well and
it looks like they are using Ada at work.

Projects like AWS or PolyORB seem to have European origins.

In short - the fact that US military industry turns away from Ada is
at most the US problem, not the Ada problem in general. Nothing to
fuss about.

Just my 0.05 Euro. ;-)

BTW: Ada Lovelace was European as well...

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Maciej Sobczak
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