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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 05:58:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!uni-erlangen.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!213.155.153.242!not-for-mail From: Peter Amey Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:58:43 +0100 Organization: Praxis Critical Systems Message-ID: <3BC2F483.B75464B1@praxis-cs.co.uk> References: <3bc16680.2581922@news.demon.co.uk> <6gpw7.42573$jE3.4985089@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3bc2b008.1326667@news.demon.co.uk> <3bc2bc7e$1@pull.gecm.com> <3bc2d26e.10131748@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.155.153.242 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1002632292 21647036 213.155.153.242 (16 [69815]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14006 Date: 2001-10-09T13:58:43+01:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: [snip] > Reuters have used it for a while in the west country I believe. As for > the City of London, there have been adverts recently for experienced > Ada/C++ staff to work in the city on a SmartCard project. I haven't > been convinced that they are actually using Ada though, possibly they > just want people who have been exposed to the disciplines of using Ada > in order to produce a better quality C++ product. > It really is Ada; actually some of it is also SPARK. Interesting project too. Peter