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From: Adam Tissa <verb_precedes_adjective@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Language support for  flexible handling of system-detected errors.
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:16:54 +1100
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> wrote:

>I'd hazard to guess that you know nothing about Ada? 

Many of us studied it at university in the dim distant past.
( They now teach kids Haskell and Java )

Ada has gone the way of Jovial.

> Granted, the first implementations were crap, but the vendors
>seems to have improved on the quality lately.

Not too many vendors left.
ACT is the only one I can think of  and they have a free unsupported
version and a supported  version that they want six figures per seat
for. I guess that the DOD and a few companies stuck with legacy Ada
based DOD source code maintenance contracts are their only customers.

>The useof Ada is usualy obscure. It tends to be used in places where it does
>not show. It's devices like aeroplanes, nuclear reactors, trains, flight
>control systems, weapons systems etc.

Actually, many of these systems now use C or C++ because of:

1. Management reluctance to approve the use of a dying language.
( Heck, how many new projects are done in COBOL ? )
2. Difficulty finding and hiring Ada programmers.