From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Jun 93 21:41:00 GMT From: howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!nitelog!michae l.hagerty@gatech.edu (Michael Hagerty) Subject: NON-DEFENSE ADA APPLI Message-ID: <1639.237.uupcb@nitelog.com> List-Id: 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 --- . MR/2 1.50 #63 . Being good at being stupid doesn't count.