Re: Mike Feldman, meet Archie

[enterpoop.mit.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!bogus.sura.net!jhunix.hcf.jh u.edu!darwin.sura.net!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Feldm]

In article <C3BJEx.5Gy@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
 writes:
>
>   Periodically, Mike Feldman posts a list of projects using Ada.  By
>itself, the list is interesting, I guess, but without any context (in
>terms of use of other languages in projects, and comparisons by lines
>of code, year of start and end, cost ,etc) it is hard to conclude much
>from the list other than - Ada use exists.  Since we all know Ada use
>exists - what's the point.
>
You'd be amazed at the number of people who think that Ada is exclusively
a US DoD toy. The point for net readers, and their friends, and their
friends' friends, is that there are a number of documented projects
beyond the DoD in organizations that have chosen Ada. This knowledge,
and the growing use of Ada as a serious educational language, is intended
to strengthen the hand of those whose supervisors or colleagues resist
Ada because "nobody but DoD uses it." I'm doing what I can to create a
positive, rather than a negative, self-fulfilling prophecy.

I re-post the list whenever there are substantial changes.

Mike Feldman