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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.osn.de!diablo1.news.osn.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!193.190.198.58.MISMATCH!aotearoa.belnet.be!ikarus.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 22:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ada-Belgium, c/o Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: heli.cs.kuleuven.be X-Trace: ikarus.fw.belnet.be 1275688941 5660 134.58.42.22 (4 Jun 2010 22:02:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 22:02:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: dirk@heli.cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12261 Date: 2010-06-04T22:02:21+00:00 List-Id: In article in the Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.ada, Fritz Wuehler wrote: >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. http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html#Banking_and_Financial_Systems_