Re: An observation of Ada (may offend)

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <VLADIMIR.95Mar13204932@speedy.intrepid.com>,
Vladimir Vukicevic <vladimir@speedy.intrepid.com> wrote:

>Speaking of why people think Ada is not a good language... it'd be nice
>if someone collected the many myths about Ada, and collected them all
>together for distribution to the unbelievers. :-)  This would simplify
>telling people about Ada, especially if all they've heard was that it's
>a "big ugly ancient language used by the government", or that it's too
>'huge' to be worth doing anything with.

Here's a contribution:

MYTH: "Ada is used only by the U.S. Department of Defense"

RESPONSE: Here's a list I'm just getting started with, of application
  domains and lists of projects in which Ada is present in at least
  substantial amounts of code, if not exclusively. That a project is
  not _all_ Ada is a commentary on our increasingly mature view of
  reuse and mixed-language programming. Feel free to add to or correct
  my enumeration. I want the data to be up to date and verified.
  At some point I will put this in better format, including html.

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