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,efe03f20164a417b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-17 09:27:41 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!darwin.sura.net!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An observation of Ada (may offend) Date: 17 Mar 1995 12:00:50 -0500 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3kcf82$ln3@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <3k00no$8qv@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1995-03-17T12:00:50-05:00 List-Id: In article , Vladimir Vukicevic 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. Air Traffic Control Systems, by country Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong Hungary India Ireland Kenya Netherlands New Zealand Pakistan Scotland South Africa Spain Sweden United Kingdom United States Vietnam Banking and Financial Networks Reuters Swiss Postbank Electronic Funds Transfer system Commercial Aircraft Airbus 330 Airbus 340 Beechjet 400A (US business jet) Beech Starship I (US business jet) Beriev BE-200 (Russian forest fire patrol) Boeing 737-200, -400, -500, -600, -700, -800 Boeing 747-400 Boeing 757 Boeing 767 Boeing 777 Canadair Regional Jet Embraer CBA-123 and CBA-145 (Brazilian-made regional airliners) Fokker F-100 (Dutch DC-9-size airliner) Ilyushin 96M (Russian jetliner) McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (new model DC10) Saab 2000 Tupolev TU-204 (Russian jetliner) Communication and Navigational Satellites Cassini EOS - NASA's Earth Observing System Goes INMARSAT - voice and data communications to ships and mobile communications Intelsat VII NSTAR (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph) PanAmSat (South American Intelsat-like consortium) RadarSat (Canada) United States Coast Guard Differential Global Positioning System Railway Transportation Cairo Metro Calcutta Metro Caracas Metro Channel Tunnel Conrail (major U.S. railway company) French High-Speed Rail (TGV) French National Railways Hong Kong Suburban Rail London Underground Paris Metro Paris Suburban Rail Television Industry Canal+ (French pay-per-view TV, remote cable box control software)