From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: What is Ada used for???
Date: 1996/10/10
Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Oct10.073723.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53i2h6$cku@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu
In article <53i2h6$cku@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>, WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US (Robert S. White) writes:
> In article <AE813FAA-56A9E@206.107.67.23>, roehnelt@csulb.edu says...
>>
>>I'm taking my first programming class at school, and want to know where Ada
>>fits in to the grand scheme of things....
>
> Avionics (big catch all for instruments & navigation), flight control
> software, engine control software (rockets & jets), GPS satellites, GPS/INS
> systems are things I personally know about. I heard reports that some Swiss
> bankers use it. The complete list and possibilities is quite large. There
> have not been a lot of high volume general purpose desktop applications
> (word processors and spreadsheets) written in Ada. Think about where
> software bugs are tolerated and where they are not.
>
> Ada in general is very well suited for programming in the large with a
> team of software engineers.
Ada is also quite useful for programs which will exist for a long
time but will only be revised very infrequently. Even if changes
to a program are made by the original author, it is quite possible
that the workings of the program will be forgotten by the time the
change is to be made. Due to the nature of the language, Ada has
a greater chance than most languages of catching errors due to
unfamiliarity with the program being changed.
In the line of "personal programs", I did not use Ada for the program
which handled the invitation list for my wedding, since reusing it is
not my plan. I _did_ use Ada for the program which sends messages to
my pager in response to certain events, since I revise that program
every 3 years or so.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-09 0:00 What is Ada used for??? Sean Roehnelt
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jason Smith
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1996-10-20 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Richard Riehle
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` whiting_ms@corning.com (Matt Whiting)
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Stanley R. Allen
1996-10-24 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Andrew Dunstan
1996-10-25 0:00 ` John DiCamillo
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-28 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Rush Kester
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1996-10-30 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Poutanen Olavi
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Kazimir Majorinc
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
[not found] ` <AE817A13-1E0BE@206.107.67.30>
1996-10-09 0:00 ` What is Ada used for??? Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Jin Xue Kuang
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-25 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?) Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-26 0:00 ` Choosing C++ instead of Ada Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-30 0:00 ` Arlene S. Felton
1996-11-04 0:00 ` nasser
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