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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f51f81cfa14d6ed0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Returning to Ada Date: 1995/03/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100540690 sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com references: <3las8g$10i6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> organization: Intermetrics, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ballj@ibm.net wrote: : I am returning to the world of Ada programming after a break of three and : a half years. When I last used the language it was dying a slow death : because the mainstream computing world hadn't took to it as was expected. : Is the use of Ada still common only to Defence and Aerospace applications ? It has branched out into other areas, including ground transportation systems, medical instrumentation, commercial transaction processing systems, simulation, etc. : What has happened about Ada 9X ? and what are the prospects for future : development. Ada 9X is complete, and is now called "Ada 95." It is an official ISO standard as of February 15, 1995 (ISO/IEC-8652:1995(E)). There is a nearly complete Ada 95 compiler available for free, based on the FSF/GNU backend technology and a new front end written in Ada 95. It is available by anonymous FTP from cs.nyu.edu, in pub/gnat/... : ... OK the real question is "Is this a good career move ?" We hope so! Stay tuned to comp.lang.ada to find out... To learn more, browse http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/ : John Ball -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com Intermetrics, Inc.