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From: Jeff Schweiger <jschweiger@mps.chinalake.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Future of Ada?
Date: 1999/01/14
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I'd never looked at VSIP before reading this posting.  It appears to be
a long-range R&D effort years away from actually being included in
operational weapons systems acquisition.  I don't know what their Ada
plans are, but expect that they are not representative of Navy software
development as a whole.  I do know that for many Navy applications,
especially in the precision guided munitions arena, there is
considerable use of Ada.

Jeff Schweiger

"E. Robert Tisdale" wrote:

> Jim wrote:
>
> > I am just wondering what those who frequent
> > this news group think about the future of Ada.
> > I've heard a lot of talk that Ada is kind of dying out
> > and that not even the military is using it any more.
> > Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
> There is enormous resistance to Ada
> in some high performance application domains
> such as digital signal and image processing.
> DARPA/ITO sponsored the VSIP Forum
>
>         http://www.vsip.org/
>
> to develop a standard API for
> Vector, Signal and Image Processing libraries.
> They have specified an ANSI C language binding
> and may eventually specify bindings
> for other high level programming languages
> but there doesn't seem to be any interest
> in doing so at this time.
> There doesn't appear to be any pressure yet
> from the US Navy for an Ada language binding
> and I don't think that there ever will be.
> Many of the safety features provided by Ada
> are incorporated into VSIP library functions
> at compile or link time as options.
>
> Bob Tisdale, <edwin@netwood.net>

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