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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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> > Banks get good software for their central money servers, because they
> > insist that they actually work, and are secure, and spend the money to
> > ensure that happens (and some of them are written in SPARK).
> And the others ?

None of the bank software I have seen has ever been written in Ada, much
less Spark. It's is 100% COBOL. They may have front-ends written in all
sorts of garbage languages (Java, etc.) but the financial processing is
COBOL and there is still some amount of assembler around.

Ada is better than COBOL except in one way. It is easier to write reports
(the bulk of financial processing) and define decimal (money) fields in
COBOL than Ada. It *could* have been used in financial processing, but
COBOL had two decades and a half of a head start.