Re: Info About Real Ada 95 Projects

Re: Info About Real Ada 95 Projects

[Thomas Kerstan]

Susan Carlson wrote:
> 
> Here at the Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC), we've been
> working to track down info on Ada 95 projects.  To date, we have
> identified 34 Ada 95 projects.  You can search our Ada 95 projects
> database via our WWW site:  http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/usage/
> 
please check your url, I get 
404 Not Found
The requested URL /usage was not found on this server.

when attempting to use it.

> Please help us by pointing us to other Ada 95 projects.  You can
> send leads to adainfo@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
> 
> Thanks,
> Susan Carlson
> --

Tom
kerstan@wpllabs.com

Info About Real Ada 95 Projects

[Susan Carlson]

Here at the Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC), we've been
working to track down info on Ada 95 projects.  To date, we have
identified 34 Ada 95 projects.  You can search our Ada 95 projects
database via our WWW site:  http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/usage/

Please help us by pointing us to other Ada 95 projects.  You can
send leads to adainfo@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us

Thanks,
Susan Carlson
-- 
Susan Carlson                             carlsons@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
AdaIC/IITRI                                   703/681-2464 or 800/232-4211

Re: Info About Real Ada 95 Projects

[tmoran]

Just to add a non-militiary, but small, project:
  Two years ago I used RR's beta Ada 95 for a one-shot project to
clean historical financial data for a data retailer/investment counsel
company.  Their internal database of stock and commodity data had gaps
and errors.  They bought a database from a well know economic
consulting firm - which also had gaps and error, but hopefull
different ones.  My program merged the two, including detecting and
correcting for stock splits.  Since true data is sometimes difficult
to distinguish from erroneous, the program ran one task that ran
through the CDROMs and hard disks of data, while another flashed
alternating charts of two versions of a particularly peculiar
financial history so a human expert could accept one or note for
further research.
  Since the owner of the firm was a self-taught C++ programmer, and
considered himself as expert at that as at investments, it seemed
unnecessary to discuss my choice of language with him.  Since it was a
one shot probject resulting in a new, improved, data base, there was
no question of future code maintenance.  It's thus one of those
'hidden Ada' projects.
  This project did not use any of the 'big' OO, tasking, or child
library features of Ada 95.  It did use little things like 'use type',
modular types, etc.  One of the databases used scaled values which
were just right for 'fixed'.  Subtypes and exceptions of course helped
catch the truly bizarre.  While demoing an early version it crashed.
Using the exception traceback I was able to find the kind of weird
data that caused the problem, put in explicit handling, recompile, and
return to the demo in under 10 minutes.  The client was pleased.  I
still see large ads in investment magazines for his 'high quality data'.
Tom Moran

Re: Info About Real Ada 95 Projects

[Ken Garlington]

Susan Carlson wrote:
> 
> Here at the Ada Information Clearinghouse (AdaIC), we've been
> working to track down info on Ada 95 projects.  To date, we have
> identified 34 Ada 95 projects.  You can search our Ada 95 projects
> database via our WWW site:  http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/usage/

I think this was meant to be:

   http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/usage/

By the way, in addition to the AV-8B JSF demonstrator, I think there
are other JSF demonstrator projects supported by AJPO. I was surprised
that this was the only JSF item on the list.

Also, note that the pointer from the AV-8B JSF project page to the 
Summer 95 newsletter is apparently no longer valid.

Re: Info About Real Ada 95 Projects

[Becca Norton]

Thomas Kerstan wrote:
[snip]
> >You can search our Ada 95 projects
> > database via our WWW site:  http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/usage/
> >
> please check your url, I get
[snip]
> Tom
> kerstan@wpllabs.com

Apologies for the incorrect path.  The correct path is
http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/usage

Becca Norton
AdaIC