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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-08 07:22:09 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!hrc63!gec-mrc.co.uk!paj From: paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (Paul Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Message-ID: <6029@gec-mrc.co.uk> Date: 8 Dec 94 08:16:22 GMT References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: 1994-12-08T08:16:22+00:00 List-Id: Stephen J Bevan (bevan@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote: > In article <5994@gec-mrc.co.uk> paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (Paul Johnson) writes: > ... I worked on an Ada project that tried to do exactly that. We had > huge files of definitions, but the type system still kept getting in > the way. ... > At the end of the project was it acknowledged that the design was > (probably) wrong or was Ada blamed for the problem? I left before the end of the project (contract labour). The people I was with agreed that it might have been better if the design had been different. Paul. -- Paul Johnson | GEC-Marconi Ltd is not responsible for my opinions. | +44 245 473331 ext 3245 +-----------+-----------------------------------------+ Work: | You are lost in a twisty maze of little Home: | standards, all different.