* Ada users @ 2009-04-02 23:52 Chetan 2009-04-03 0:58 ` Marc A. Criley ` (3 more replies) 0 siblings, 4 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Chetan @ 2009-04-02 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw) I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used nowadays, besides defence related projects. What do you use it for? -- What's news? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-02 23:52 Ada users Chetan @ 2009-04-03 0:58 ` Marc A. Criley 2009-04-03 11:34 ` Tim Rowe 2009-04-12 21:24 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen ` (2 subsequent siblings) 3 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Marc A. Criley @ 2009-04-03 0:58 UTC (permalink / raw) Chetan wrote: > I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used nowadays, > besides defence related projects. What do you use it for? Here's the list: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html Marc A. Criley ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-03 0:58 ` Marc A. Criley @ 2009-04-03 11:34 ` Tim Rowe 2009-04-03 12:07 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Tim Rowe @ 2009-04-03 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw) Marc A. Criley wrote: > Chetan wrote: >> I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used nowadays, >> besides defence related projects. What do you use it for? > > Here's the list: Perhaps http://www.eurocontrol.int/artas/public/standard_page/artas_systemarchitecture.html should be on the list, although it's not exclusively Ada -- I don't see it there. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-03 11:34 ` Tim Rowe @ 2009-04-03 12:07 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen 2009-04-04 21:08 ` tmoran 0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Jean-Pierre Rosen @ 2009-04-03 12:07 UTC (permalink / raw) Tim Rowe a �crit : > Perhaps > http://www.eurocontrol.int/artas/public/standard_page/artas_systemarchitecture.html > should be on the list, although it's not exclusively Ada -- I don't see > it there. There is also the MASS project: http://www.eurocontrol.int/eec/public/standard_page/ERS_mass.html -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-03 12:07 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen @ 2009-04-04 21:08 ` tmoran 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: tmoran @ 2009-04-04 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw) Good reminder. I've sent mention of Ada running a TV station's video server to Mike Feldman. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-02 23:52 Ada users Chetan 2009-04-03 0:58 ` Marc A. Criley @ 2009-04-12 21:24 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen 2009-04-13 9:11 ` Alex R. Mosteo 2009-04-16 21:47 ` lanceboyle 2009-04-17 20:19 ` Samuel Tardieu 3 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread From: Jacob Sparre Andersen @ 2009-04-12 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw) Chetan wrote: > I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used > nowadays, besides defence related projects. What do you use it for? Investment simulations and analysis in an investment bank. Greetings, Jacob -- "I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by detonation." -- Larry Wall ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-12 21:24 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen @ 2009-04-13 9:11 ` Alex R. Mosteo 0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Alex R. Mosteo @ 2009-04-13 9:11 UTC (permalink / raw) Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > Chetan wrote: > >> I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used >> nowadays, besides defence related projects. What do you use it for? > > Investment simulations and analysis in an investment bank. I'm in academia, using it to program teams of mobile robots. Alex. > > Greetings, > > Jacob ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-02 23:52 Ada users Chetan 2009-04-03 0:58 ` Marc A. Criley 2009-04-12 21:24 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen @ 2009-04-16 21:47 ` lanceboyle 2009-04-17 20:19 ` Samuel Tardieu 3 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: lanceboyle @ 2009-04-16 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw) On Apr 2, 4:52 pm, Chetan <chetan.xs...@xspam.sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used nowadays, > besides defence related projects. What do you use it for? > > -- > What's news? I use Ada (GNAT 4.3) for most of my "general purpose" programming. I'm an engineer (research and R&D) so that means all manner of calculations, simulations, etc. I use it where many people would use Octave or Matlab. However, many of my projects are larger than would be comfortable in those languages (i.e., 50 lines 8^). I have made function overloads for the arithmetic operators so that writing algebraic expressions using floats, integers, and complex types is easy and easy to read. Ada 2005 added official real and complex vectors and matrices; I have added overloads to also allow "mixed- mode" arithmetic with those vectors and matrices and floats, integers, and complex types. Yes, it's a nuisance to have to do this, but it's not hard and you have to do it only once. I use several other tools--Igor Pro, Mathematica, Octave, Supercollider, Max/MSP, ChucK, LiveMath Maker, Pascal (for legacy stuff), and a bit of sed and regexp, etc.--but Ada is far and away my first tool. I believe in using the most appropriate tool for any given job, and mixing as necessary, and Ada is the most appropriate most of the time. Jerry P.S. One thing that makes Ada so useful for my general calculation needs are the Ada bindings to PLplot (which I wrote). See http://plplot.sourceforge.net/. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
* Re: Ada users 2009-04-02 23:52 Ada users Chetan ` (2 preceding siblings ...) 2009-04-16 21:47 ` lanceboyle @ 2009-04-17 20:19 ` Samuel Tardieu 3 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread From: Samuel Tardieu @ 2009-04-17 20:19 UTC (permalink / raw) >>>>> "Chetan" == Chetan <chetan.xspam@xspam.sbcglobal.net> writes: Chetan> I was wondering about the type of projects Ada is being used Chetan> nowadays, besides defence related projects. What do you use it Chetan> for? The "Telecom Robotics association", a French robotic club, uses Ada to control their robot taking part of the European robotics contest (http://www.eurobot.org/eng/). Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread
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