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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,6322b2f76bf30f06 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Harald Schmidt Subject: Re: Ada95 in Germary Date: 2000/01/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 571831793 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <2000Jan11.072940.1@eisner> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: abuse@de.uu.net Organization: Customer of UUNET Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jan 2000 22:21:42 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-12T22:21:42+00:00 List-Id: in article 2000Jan11.072940.1@eisner, Larry Kilgallen at kilgallen@eisner.decus.org wrote on 11.01.2000 13:29: > In article , Harald Schmidt > 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