From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Subject: Re: Integer division: a winner declared
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 23:12:58 EST [thread overview]
Date: Thu Feb 20 23:12:58 1986
Message-ID: <5030@kestrel.ARPA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 11923@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
In article <11923@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU
(Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
> You may be interested that many of the largest defense companies/contractors
> consider Ada to be a complete joke and have no intention of making it
> available
> unless their programmers start screaming and begging for it. This includes
> Los Alamos National Labs, Lawrence Livermore Labs,
> the National Security Agency,
> NASA and Lockheed.
Considering ADA to be flawed - not in one of your cases.
Having no intention of making it available, again false in two of
your quoted list.
From first hand knowledge.
There is enormous pressure to write in ADA for DOD work.
DOE? No idea.
Peter Ladkin
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1986-02-19 10:03 ` Integer division: a winner declared Matthew P. Wiener
1986-02-20 17:38 ` Integer division semantics; Ada Stavros Macrakis
1986-02-21 18:20 ` Contractors and agencies using Ada Beth Katz
1986-02-21 18:45 ` Integer division semantics; Ada Matthew P. Wiener
1986-02-21 19:03 ` Matthew P. Wiener
1986-02-21 4:12 ` Peter Ladkin [this message]
1986-02-21 4:58 ` Integer division: a winner declared Peter Ladkin
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1986-02-21 8:34 ` Gene Ward Smith
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