Re: ada in australia, to the mystery emailer

[Peter Milliken <peter.milliken@boeing.com>]

In addition to Robert's reference to JORN. The Combat System on the Collins
Class sub (you may have heard mention of it in the papers and on the TV?
:-)) is written in Ada. Most, if not all defence companies in Australia
have done at least one project using Ada. It has been in use since at least
the mid-80's here. Most issues of the Australian have at least one
advertisement with Ada somewhere in it, there is always a cronic shortage
of experience Ada programmers here (like anywhere else :-)). But it is a
fairly limited "scene" due to the target audience (defence contractors).

Peter

G wrote:

>   Someone asked me about ada in australia and i replied by email.  They
> said they saw me write here and then when I got the email back with one
> of those little messages to the effect that they did not actually exist
> (as that email) I figured something silly was going on.
>
>   I think he said his name was David Riehle and that he would be in
> Australia for seminars or something.  He asked if there is much of an
> ada 'scene' (not in so many words) in Australia and I though I had
> better try and reply through here.
>
>   Answer is, I have no idea.  Going from the newspapers and the
> advertisements for jobs in IT sections - I have not seen Ada mentioned
> even once.  I know that there are probably a variety of organisation
> which do use it here, or teach it at least, but in answer to the man's
> question, again- in as much as I know... it isn't big here, but I don't
> know much.
>
> OK, so if something went wrong with your email, Mystery mailer - I
> replied here as well.
> OK
>
> -G