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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 2001-10-17 18:38:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr17.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BCE32B2.96CE83C5@flash.net> From: Gary Scott Reply-To: scottg@flash.net Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en]C-DIAL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? References: <9prl5701m0v@drn.newsguy.com> <3bc16b42.3799903@news.demon.co.uk> <3BC20BC2.1F92FADB@adaworks.com> <3bc2b25a.1919900@news.demon.co.uk> <3BC31374.F9086B7E@lmtas.lmco.com> <3bc4038e.1810833@news.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.48.222.204 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr17.news.prodigy.com 1003369030 ST000 64.48.222.204 (Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:37:10 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:37:10 EDT X-UserInfo1: OPUUPIWCA[_S@UXXOZOTOQMAPJYREUDKFA_J]Q]KEYUNDQUCCNSUAACY@L[ZX__HGFD]JBJNSFXTOOGA_VWY^_HG@FW_HUTHOH]TBPGCO\P^PLP^@[GLHUK@WLECKFVL^TYG[@RMWQXIWM[SDDYWNLG_G[_BWUCHFY_Y@AS@Q[B\APPF@DCZM_PG_VSCPQZM Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:37:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14852 Date: 2001-10-18T01:37:10+00:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Oct 2001 10:10:44 -0500, Gary Scott > wrote: > > >But Jovial is alive and well for 1750A...and it's served us well for 30 > >years or so. > > There's a huge market for that, isn't there! I know the UK Air Traffic > Control system in West Drayton has significant quantities of Jovial in > it, so why are NERC using Ada? F-16 is still mostly Jovial. Newer systems were moving toward Ada, now moving toward C before even getting to production (some configurations)... -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net mailto:webmaster@fortranlib.com http://www.fortranlib.com Support the GNU Fortran G95 Project: http://g95.sourceforge.net