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Date: 16 Jun 93 13:33:04 GMT
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s.acc.Virginia.EDU!dtl8v@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Douglass T. Lamb)
Subject: Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada
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In article <1993Jun16.095953.18705@cfmu.eurocontrol.be>, ian@cfmu.eurocontrol.b
e (Ian Wild) writes:
|> dtl8v@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Douglass T. Lamb) says:
|> >... but in Europe, for instance, Ada is far more widely used than C, ...
|> 
|> As it stands, this statement is not true of any Europe I've ever seen.  Have
|> I missed some qualifying context somewhere?  A brief scan of the job ads
|> here shows C/C++ still hugely more in demand than Ada.  (Of course, both
|> are way behind COBOL.)
|> 
|> ian

  Forgive me if I erred in my statement.  It seems to me the volume of data
and of publications in and on Ada are vastly higher in Europe than in the U.S.
European contracters have used Ada in building aerospace and train systems
(for instance, the European Airbus and the [now-defunct?] European Fighter
Aircraft), research systems, nuclear systems, you name it.  It appears from
the literature that Ada is far more widely taught, as are software engineering
and software validation principles, but how a typical European school's
curriculum compares to a typical American school's, I couldn't say.  Several
authors have been led to make the following statement: "In the European
computer engineering community, Ada has become the de facto standard for
_____ (you fill in the blank) systems," where various answers are safety-
critical, real-time, reliable, or distributed/multiprocessing.
-- 
Doug lamb@Virginia.EDU             U.Va. Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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