Re: SEIC News Brief, Week Ending November 29, 1996

[kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <57ngcv$3c4@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> seic@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (SEIC) writes:
> ADA VS. THE COMMERCIAL WORLD
> Topic: Ada
> 
> John Stein Monroe reports in the latest issue of Federal Computer Week 
> that Ada remains a vibrant language despite a smaller market share than 
> some commercial languages.  Commercial languages are proliferating 
> throughout the Department of Defense (DoD), but Ada is still preferred 
> for many applications and is second only to COBOL in its use in DoD 
> information systems.  In fact, the DoD and its contractors have developed 
> more than 50 million lines of Ada code.

So Ada isn't a commercial language?  I doubt that my employer would agree.

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