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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Laurent Guerby Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Date: 2000/11/06 Message-ID: <8666m0gby8.fsf@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 690381826 References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> <8tv1i6$oif$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A031100.68F2B59@netwood.net> X-Trace: front6m.grolier.fr 973537299 29470 195.36.165.134 (6 Nov 2000 19:01:39 GMT) Organization: Club-Internet (France) NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Nov 2000 19:01:39 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-06T19:01:39+00:00 List-Id: "E. Robert Tisdale" writes: > [...] Ada programmers don't appear to be much interested in numerical > computing at all. I don't think that anyone uses Ada for numerical > computing anymore. [...] That's funny. Any rocket, missile or transportation system (a domain where Ada is used) is full of large pieces of numerical code written in Ada. At work, the Ada software I work on is full of numerical code (equity derivative pricer: PDE, Monte Carlo, FFT, stats, etc...). -- Laurent Guerby