Re: Computer Weekly survey: Ada does well again

[Philip Anderson <phil.anderson@amsjv.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
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> Its nice to know Ada is doing so well outside of government circles. Maybe
> it is an example of "Military Intelligence"? As the military abandons Ada to
> start trend-following, the private sector starts "discovering" Ada.

No, there are still plenty of Defence projects written in Ada, but the
software is written within the private sector not by Government
employees.

The trend for years has been for the MoD to do less of its own work and
subcontract everything out to Prime Contractors who in turn will
subcontract to other companies including Software Houses - now systems
tend to be PC-based, companies which used to supply their own computers
with a system now just supply software.


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hwyl/cheers,
Philip Anderson
Alenia Marconi Systems
Cwmbr�n, Cymru/Wales