Re: Hijacking a Thread was RE: New Ada compiler for .NET

[Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > Please take off-topic discussions to alt.politics... or whatever is
> > appropriate.
>
> I think it's on-topic, since Ada is used in the development of
> weapon systems that the imperialist West uses to subjugate the
> peace-loving innocents of the Third World :-)

It is also used in Iran, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, and several other
places one would not ordinarily consider as Western countries.  I
get requests for training from some of these places (not North
Korea or Iraq, however).  We don't do business with Iran either.
It is also used for some very large, and I mean _very_ large
projects in China.   Of course the Chinese have developed their
own Ada compilers and I think they have modified them in some
ways.   One Chinese innovation I saw involved using a construct
similar to a typical C++ class, but without all the associated
C++ garbage code.  I'll try to find an electronic copy of one of
those specifications and post it in this forum.

Richard Riehle