Re: ada in australia, to the mystery emailer

[G <Dizzy@interact.net.au>]

Yes, I knew that ADF used it, or so I deduced from the online listing for adfa
courses.

Nice to know someone uses it then, so if I spend years learning then it might
be worth something.
:-)
-Graeme

Peter Milliken wrote:

> 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