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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: New Ada space project
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:00:51 -0000
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Mark Lorenzen wrote:
>> As with most European space projects, ESA is not actually
>> implementing it: contracted companies perform the development
>> (including writing software (which in this case is sensibly Ada)).
>
> And in other cases in C because "we can't find enough Ada
> programmers".

Well there might be dozens of them available from Edinburgh and Rochester,
Kent pretty soon! :-(