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: 10db24,9ace0fdfdf311c42 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9ace0fdfdf311c42 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9ace0fdfdf311c42 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,9ace0fdfdf311c42 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ace0fdfdf311c42 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: SEIC News Brief, Week Ending November 29, 1996 Date: 1996/12/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 202074046 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: pulsar references: <57ngcv$3c4@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1996-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@aonix.com <*> TeleSo^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsy^H^H^H^H Thomson Softw^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Aonix 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2706 "SPOON!" -- The Tick