Re: An observation of Ada (may offend)

[mjmeie@ss5.magec.com (Mike Meier)]

Michael Feldman (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu) wrote:
: In article <3kiani$i49@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
: >There are certainly many examples of non-govt related Ada projects (Boeing
: >commercial is an obvious example). Earlier this week, I was at a meeting
: >at Praxis, who makes a tool, SPARC Examiner, used in the creation of
: >high integrity Ada code. They reported that more than half their customers
: >are commercial customers.

: Naturally it would be nice to know who these customers are.:-)

I can certainly sympathize with those companies who keep their use of Ada a
secret.  My company, even though most of its work is government contracts,
takes the same approach with some proprietary projects.  But, I wonder if we
could get companies to provide this information on an anonymous basis.
We'd have to ask them to mail to one "trusted" place (which could even strip
identifiers automatically) with a count of the number of projects of each
type and/or size (or something like that).  Could we make something like this
work?

Mike Meier
Magnavox Electronic Systems Company