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,FREEMAIL_FROM, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps83.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Duke Normandin Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? References: User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Darwin) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:33:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.154.68.170 X-Trace: edtnps83 1275708818 75.154.68.170 (Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:33:38 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:33:38 MDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12262 Date: 2010-06-05T03:33:38+00:00 List-Id: On 2010-06-04, Fritz Wuehler wrote: >> > 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. > COBOL maybe! However, here in Canada, I'm aware that a lot of financial institutions were set up to use Mumps (now M Technology) and they're still using it. I believe the same is true in the U.S.A. Mumps is _still_ big in the Health Care sector. -- Duke Normandin *** Tolerance becomes a crime, when applied to evil [Thomas Mann] ***