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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Article in "COTS Journal"
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:42:40 +0200
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>Marc A. Criley wrote:
>> It's now there:  http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/2003/05/
>
>I like this quote from the article:
>     "The DoD maintains an enormous investment in Ada, and
>      major safety-critical embedded systems written in Ada
>      like those in the Atlas will be in service well into
>      the next century."
>
>It's good to know that the Atlas rocket will still be flying
>a hundred years from now!

As others pointed out, this isn't what the quote says. And given a
quite normal life-time-expectancy of embedded systems of 30 or even
more years, even a "will be in service in a hundred years from now"
doesn't sound very spectacular.

After all, people still use COBOL, don't they? ;)


Vinzent.