Re: AIA Position on Ada

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

"If DOD will not be using Ada, who will ?"

Well the predicate is clearly false. Even if DoD did not use Ada for
one new project (which in fact is also false, Ada will be used for
many new projects), it has huge amounts of Ada code that will be
maintained for a long time (Ada is the most widely used programming
language in DoD weapons systems, and the second most widely used
langauge (after COBOL) for information systems.

YOu cannot expect an agent to be aware of all the commercial companies
using Ada. The number is probably not large, but it is much larger than
12 (almost anyone familair with the Ada scene can name more than 12
companies using Ada for non-defence work from their own knowledge!)