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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33e793a459e66944 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US (Robert S. White) Subject: Re: What is Ada used for??? Date: 1996/10/10 Message-ID: <53i2h6$cku@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188391740 references: content-type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: sounding off from home (day job at a big company) mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , roehnelt@csulb.edu says... > >I'm taking my first programming class at school, and want to know where Ada >fits in to the grand scheme of things.... Avionics (big catch all for instruments & navigation), flight control software, engine control software (rockets & jets), GPS satellites, GPS/INS systems are things I personally know about. I heard reports that some Swiss bankers use it. The complete list and possibilities is quite large. There have not been a lot of high volume general purpose desktop applications (word processors and spreadsheets) written in Ada. Think about where software bugs are tolerated and where they are not. Ada in general is very well suited for programming in the large with a team of software engineers. ___________________________________________________________________________ Robert S. White -- an embedded systems software engineer WhiteR@CRPL.Cedar-Rapids.lib.IA.US -- It's long, but I pay for it!