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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Dec 92 13:57:42 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.e du!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!news.dasd.honeywell.com !madre.dasd.honeywell.com!tas@ (Todd A Sorensen) Subject: Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing? Message-ID: <1992Dec8.065742.1@madre.dasd.honeywell.com> List-Id: In article <1992Dec4.141816.1@happy.colorado.edu>, srheintze@happy.colorado.edu writes: [stuff deleted] > > Where is Ada going? Is it dying? That thread on "Is GNU-Ada self-insulting" > suggests that Ada is floundering. How badly is Ada floundering? Does that mea n > I'll never see inheritance in Ada? > > Thanks, > Sieg I can tell you that Ada is alive and well at most Honeywell Divisions. Almost all of the programs here are now being developed or translated into Ada. This was a big step from Jovial and C which use a lot of pointers to manipulate data in our real-time systems. Ada 9X should bring Ada up to date, although you can still write very good (maintainable) code with Ada 83. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd A Sorensen Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Division (505) 828-5611 internet: tas@dasd.honeywell.com fax: (505) 828-5500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are You Free if you have a Job? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------