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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?
Date: 2000/11/06
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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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