From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?
Date: 2000/11/06
Date: 2000-11-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 8666m0gby8.fsf@acm.org
In article <8666m0gby8.fsf@acm.org>,
Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> wrote:
> "E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net> writes:
> > [...] Ada programmers don't appear to be much interested in
> > numerical computing at all. I don't think that anyone uses Ada for
> 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...).
Our simulation code has quite a lot of it too. Anything that goes
through FAA certification has to match the reference aircraft to within
a rather small tolerance. That requires very accurate modelling of
forces and moments and such.
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-30 16:04 Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Ken Garlington
2000-10-30 18:03 ` Tucker Taft
2000-10-30 18:25 ` Robert A Duff
2000-10-30 20:41 ` Ken Garlington
2000-10-30 18:30 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-30 21:36 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-10-30 22:01 ` James Rogers
2000-11-01 14:38 ` John Kern
2000-11-01 16:16 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-30 22:17 ` Pat Rogers
2000-10-31 4:10 ` Lao Xiao Hai
2000-10-31 14:52 ` Ted Dennison
2000-10-31 16:50 ` mjsilva
2000-10-31 17:06 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-10-31 17:39 ` mjsilva
2000-11-01 2:39 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-01 3:19 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-01 19:27 ` Tucker Taft
2000-11-01 20:04 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-02 0:37 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 0:42 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-02 3:16 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 3:48 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-02 12:38 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 13:33 ` Gautier
2000-11-03 5:30 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-02 0:42 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Ada vs. C++ in defense projects Michael P. Card
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Jeff Stimson
2000-11-04 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-05 0:57 ` Jeff Carter
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Love
2000-10-31 8:06 ` Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Pascal Obry
2000-10-31 14:53 ` Jean St-Pierre
2000-10-31 15:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-10-31 21:10 ` Jean St-Pierre
2000-10-31 21:17 ` Wes Groleau
2000-10-31 21:13 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-03 0:00 ` mark_lundquist
2000-11-04 3:08 ` DuckE
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Frode Tennebø
2000-11-07 0:17 ` mark
2000-11-03 0:00 ` mark_lundquist
2000-11-03 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-03 0:00 ` mark_lundquist
2000-11-03 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
2000-11-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-11-18 0:00 ` John Magness
2000-11-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-11-06 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-11-04 0:00 ` Lao Xiao Hai
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