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: 4 Nov 92 18:55:21 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas. edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Who uses Ada?? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.185521.2322@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In <1992Nov3.213837.6505@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo) writes: >In article <1992Nov3.191829.22803@csusac.csus.edu> cs13517@athena.ecs.csus.edu writes: >> >> I am a DOD civillian engineer who is obviously affected by the >>Ada mandate. I was having a conversation with a co-worker and we came >>up with a question. Who (companies, and individuals, and schools) use >>Ada AND, are not associated with the US federal government or government >>contracting. In other words, who uses Ada because they want to, not >>because they were told to? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Kevin Metcalfe >>metcalfeke@allin1.dnet@c3po.sm-alc.af.mil >> >>p.s. Remember, use C, go to jail. >You left out the important and growing group of those who must use Ada and aft er >having had to use would not switch even if they could. Try it, you'll like it . I have. I would personally rather use C++, but this is all a matter of personal choice. I'm afraid I find some of the more religious language bigots more than slightly silly at times (not intended to point to anyone in particular -- I just don't think that this silly 'language bigotry' can be bashed too often; it's what keeps people from using the appropriate tools for the job and automatically makes a lot of people bristle against a language). -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.