Re: AIA Position on Ada

[nasser@apldbio.com]

If DOD will not be using Ada, who will ?

An agent told me the other day that he knows of
only about 12 commerical companies in the US that
uses Ada for commerical software, everything else
is defense releated.

May be with this AIA recommendation, in few years one
will count on one hand the number of people 
programming in Ada, becuase every one else will
be busy fixing bugs in all the new C and C++ code
that will now be written instead of Ada.

this is just great. more jobs for programmers who
like running after wild pointers and debugging 
core dumps .

Please let me know where will be the first aircraft
whose control system was coded in C/C++ flying to, so 
that I know where to run and hide :)

And I am going now to go buy more stocks in MircoSoft :)

Nasser
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Nasser Abbasi. C/C++/Ada Solaris. Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division. 
email:  nasser@apldbio.com   MSEE, MSCS, MSCE, Fide chess master (FM).

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