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From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline)
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Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
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"John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net> wrote in message news:<694A0F8ED8C6BEE3.22D30132AB9CC656.F5BBD1A702580BDE@lp.airnews.net>...
> I don't know whether I can use this as a counterexample or not.  My
> recollection is that Silicon Graphics was using Ada internally VERY early in
> their life, and they were keeping this VERY quiet because it was helping
> them, a lot, and they didn't really want anyone else to know.

I'm skeptical that Ada was ever very widely used at SGI.
 
> Rational used Ada internally, and it helped them a lot.  They published
> their numbers, but the reaction at GD/FW was that it just wasn't possible to
> get those kinds of numbers.

At the time, Rational had an Ada compiler to sell, and not much else,
so their numbers are suspect.

> McDonnell-Douglas had been using assembly language on F-15.  For the
> IFFC/Firefly demonstration, they jumped into Ada with both feet,
> enthusiastically, and reported very good numbers, for a digital flight
> control application.  

I would certainly expect programming in Ada to be much more productive
than programming in assembly language!