Re: Ada95 in Germary

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <B4A0CEA3.39AC%Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de>, Harald Schmidt <Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de> writes:

> ...I am new to Ada, my primary programming language
> is Smalltalk, but I am interested in which companies
> using Ada. The number of Companies using Smalltalk
> are still small, but I never heard any Company
> using Ada95. 

Obviously you have not been reading the right sources.  Try looking at
www.adapower.com or www.adaic.org.

Ada is particularly crucial to large projects where getting the software
correct is difficult.  When your company builds a 777 aircraft, the big
thing to promote is that it keeps flying, and Ada would not be sufficient
if there were not jet engines and wings and other pieces. Although folks
in this newsgroup might prefer it otherwise, Boeing is not going to
stick a big "Ada-inside" logo on every plane.

While Ada works just fine for smaller projects (like my program that
dials my answering service once an hour), those are not areas where
it takes a committee to decide on a language.

Larry Kilgallen