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=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 2 Jun 93 20:13:24 GMT From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!csus.edu!silicon.csci.csusb.edu!dick@ ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dr. Richard Botting) Subject: Re: MIS Applications in Ada? Message-ID: <1993Jun2.201324.28395@csus.edu> List-Id: Dani Zweig (dani@netcom.com) wrote: : We've been conducting research on the pros and cons of using Ada for : MIS (AIS) applications, particularly within DoD. So far, at least, : we've been having trouble finding a track record to examine. Presumably, : we haven't been looking in the right places. : Can anyone point me to MIS/Ada applications? : I'm particularly interested in large, successful projects within the : Department of Defense, but small projects or unsuccessful projects, : or private-sector projects (or any combinations thereof) are also of : interest. It is highly probable that a competent DP/MIS shop would reject Ada out of hand as being inappropriate for the job. Ada 83 has a problem with MIS/DP applications that need a MONEY data type. Little things like exact fixed point decimal arithmetic are needed by accountants and people alike! In Ada 9x there is a commercial annex that - if provided - should give a clumsy version of the COBOL 'MOVE' and 'COMPUTE' verbs from the 1960's. Disclaimer: This my own a bee in my bonnet for which no organization has any responsibillity for.