Re: Ada95 in Germary

[Harald Schmidt <Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de>]

in article 2000Jan11.072940.1@eisner, Larry Kilgallen at
kilgallen@eisner.decus.org wrote on 11.01.2000 13:29:

> In article <B4A0CEA3.39AC%Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de>, Harald Schmidt
> <Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de> writes:
> 
>> ...I am new to Ada, my primary programming language
>> is Smalltalk, but I am interested in which companies
>> using Ada. The number of Companies using Smalltalk
>> are still small, but I never heard any Company
>> using Ada95. 
> 
> Obviously you have not been reading the right sources.  Try looking at
> www.adapower.com or www.adaic.org.
> 
> Ada is particularly crucial to large projects where getting the software
> correct is difficult.  When your company builds a 777 aircraft, the big
> thing to promote is that it keeps flying, and Ada would not be sufficient
> if there were not jet engines and wings and other pieces. Although folks
> in this newsgroup might prefer it otherwise, Boeing is not going to
> stick a big "Ada-inside" logo on every plane.
> 
> While Ada works just fine for smaller projects (like my program that
> dials my answering service once an hour), those are not areas where
> it takes a committee to decide on a language.
> 
> Larry Kilgallen
Hi Larry,

thank you very much for this introductions to
Boing software development, but this didn�t
answer my question ;-)

Harald