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-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? References: <1187726191.464593.16480@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1187743992 12.201.97.213 (Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:53:12 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:53:12 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:53:12 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1530 Date: 2007-08-22T00:53:12+00:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Creem wrote: > > And it is fair the say that the survey under-reports as many people > working DoD related projects get enough briefings about violation of > export laws that they are not going to risk their jobs to answer a > survey that asks for specific project names. And some projects using Ada commercially consider it a competitive advantage and keep it secret. Richard Riehle made a similar inquiry about new Ada projects recently (May 03) and might be able to give you some additional information. See http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/df1a7f1c3c3bc77e/19f84590ef29db73?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1#19f84590ef29db73 -- Jeff Carter "Crucifixion's a doddle." Monty Python's Life of Brian 82