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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Choosing C++ instead of Ada (was What is Ada used for?)
Date: 1996/10/21
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961020165834.4990E-100000@nunic.nu.edu>, Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> writes:

> One senior executive at a DoD contracting site asked me to name three
> Ada compiler vendors. It was easy to name three, but I realized that
> the field has narrowed.  Now name three software companies who provide
> testing tools for Ada.  What about three providers of configuration
> management tools?  What about other third-party tools?

Third party tools like LINT  for C ?

Name three aircraft vendors.

Presumably you were successful, but the field is much narrower
than it was in 1925.  I am not convinced it means aircraft are
a dying breed.

Larry Kilgallen