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: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-02 10:02:55 PST Message-ID: <3E147D79.2070703@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:57:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1041530233 198.96.47.195 (Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:57:13 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:57:13 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!torn!webster!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32452 Date: 2003-01-02T12:57:13-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > I believe Pratt & Whitney is still using Ada for engine controls. At least > some of them. As one who is working on the engines for the JSF, I can tell > you that those controls are still in Ada - for the time being. (Don't know > what will happen when they go into full scale development.) > > Its a shame to see that many in the DoD arena are abandoning Ada because > "Everybody else is using C++". In this area, Ada does not tend to suffer so > much from lack of large libraries or other development enhancers since > hardware is often custom built and/or software development is not the long > pole in the tent. Here Ada's faster development time and reduced defect > characteristics can truly stand out. I'm afraid I don't know how to overcome > the "follow the crowd" mentality here. ... Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with similar syntax (but not too obviously). Then give it a splashy new name after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and call it something like "Shania". Make sure it gets included in .Net, and have the Universities preach about it and.. world domination! ;-) Just a thought. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg