NON-DEFENSE ADA APPLI

NON-DEFENSE ADA APPLI

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On Mon, 7 Jun 1993, Tucker Taft posted to All:

TT. My suspicion is that if one looks at large, long-lived, reliable
  . systems, one will find that Ada is being chosen for such systems
  . at least as often as other languages.  Almost all air-traffic
  . control systems are being implemented in Ada these days.

>From the presentations made in past years at Tri-Ada, the fact that 
one company made the unusual choice of selecting Ada for an air traffic
control system has served them in extremely good stead.  Apparently 
they are now getting around 80% black box reuse on building new systems
for other customers.  Having an advantage like that really makes you
competitive...

Of course, C++ class libraries are beginning to provide some of these
same features.  However, I seem to have difficulty finding C++ users
who are totally able to eschew the less than desirable features of C
(in the interests of efficiency, of course)...

Regards, Mikey <michael.hagerty@nitelog.com>
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