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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7961088baf0e34d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: AIA Position on Ada Date: 1996/08/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 176238549 references: <321DA0F7.79D4@lmtas.lmco.com> <321E0811.B9D@lmtas.lmco.com> <4vlosc$rmo@lex.zippo.com> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "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!)