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,b9ace55b4f3fafd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-11 20:30:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!newsserver.cilea.it!news.crs4.it!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a good book to start with? Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:44:30 +0200 Organization: CRS4, Center for Adv. Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia Message-ID: <3F85AC8E.4050209@crs4.it> References: <8d63e22a.0310070510.607bd55a@posting.google.com> <_jzgb.27856$kD3.4968@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> <8d63e22a.0310080218.23ffb8be@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparre.crs4.it Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: pietro.crs4.it 1065765245 15982 156.148.70.170 (10 Oct 2003 05:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nntpserver.crs4.it. NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Oct 2003 05:54:05 GMT User-Agent: Any Browser, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 X-Accept-Language: fo, da, no, sv, is, fr, de, it, In-Reply-To: <8d63e22a.0310080218.23ffb8be@posting.google.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:704 Date: 2003-10-10T05:54:05+00:00 List-Id: Olivier Laurent wrote: > You look like an Ada evangelist ;-), maybe you can help me: > Is ESA (European Space Agency) still based its core software > developments on Ada? It doesn't look like that. According to my sources (inside a company with ESA contracts), all new contracts come with a C mandate. I have had the pleasure of hearing quite a bit of complaints about not being allowed to use Ada. Jacob -- "if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!"