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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 10:49:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 17:49:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 991849781 24.7.82.199 (Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:49:41 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:49:41 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8248 Date: 2001-06-06T17:49:41+00:00 List-Id: >reference to a business (inventory, sales, etc.) program written in >Ada. Could someone offer some encouragement for me? I don't mind Have you looked at the Ada Success Stories? You should be able to get there from www.adapower.com I myself used Ada in a project to merge, and clean, some large stock & commodity price history databases for a data retailer. Exceptions were very helpful in preventing the leakage of numbers that were bad in ways I hadn't anticipated. Fixed point with various deltas worked well for prices given in 1/8ths, etc.