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: 103376,3141f12a6a7d0751 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-08 09:45:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: rod@praxis-cs.co.uk (Rod Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Ada success story in IEEE Software Date: 8 Jan 2002 09:45:06 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.155.153.242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1010511907 18682 127.0.0.1 (8 Jan 2002 17:45:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jan 2002 17:45:07 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18655 Date: 2002-01-08T17:45:07+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:> > It's the kind of system where most people > > would not even consider Ada, > > Why is that ? Mainly because it's an industry sector (banking) where the benefits of more rigorous software engineering approaches are not that widely recognized. There's also some belief going around that you can't build large, distributed applications in anything other than C++, Java, CORBA, ObjectWibble## etc. etc. these days...The CA is actually written in a combination of C++, Ada95, SPARK95, C and SQL, and it all fits together very well. Please read the article for more details. - Rod