From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b1681d8b21813cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-22 01:43:01 PST Message-ID: <3B0A2628.69504C70@amsjv.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:41:12 +0100 From: Philip Anderson Organization: Alenia Marconi Systems ISD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Computer Weekly survey: Ada does well again References: <4qvgmyab28.fsf@melvin.dp.ox.ac.uk> <9e5d32$2qf4@news.kvaerner.com> <9eb6md$3bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: cwmwkn0612.cwmbran.gecm.com X-Trace: 22 May 2001 09:33:00 GMT, cwmwkn0612.cwmbran.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!cwmwkn0612.cwmbran.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7691 Date: 2001-05-22T09:41:12+01:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > 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. -- hwyl/cheers, Philip Anderson Alenia Marconi Systems Cwmbr�n, Cymru/Wales