Re: ADA 95 - can anyone recommend any training courses

["Kev Mepham" <kevinmepham@iee.org>]

You may be interested to know that Ada (originally intended for use by the
US DoD) is used as the standard programming language for a fair proportion
of the flight control systems in modern military aircraft.  It is still
difficult to beat for safety critical real-time systems.


HollymaN <hollyman@usa.net> wrote in message
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> Come on ,Come on man, you can't ignore java nowdays it's the next big
> thing,if you are so sure that ada is one hell of a language just answer
this
> :why java developpment is growing that and ada vanishing in the other
> way.just look at the amzing number of java tools compared with ada
ones.Java
> is like real combat and ada like pro wrestling (it doesn't work in relal
> life (for finding a job (yeah yeah i know there's 3 or may 6 ada jobs
> outhere))).i know about rational tools.but the support sucks (there's not
> enough market for a decent support) they re giving object ada for free.
>
> be realistic(unless you work on a company developping somme kind of ada
> tools to sell)
>
> Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:m3d7qd9pa6.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> > "HollymaN" <hollyman@usa.net> writes:
> >
> > | ADA???what for??
> > | anyone who s learning this language is considered as a looser
including
> > | myself  :))
> >
> > I don't know what people think of you otherwise, but I think that they
> would
> > have a hard time justifying that you are a looser for learning Ada.
> >
> > Those people that think I should learn Java, I always asks why, and the
> > arguments are usually taken from hyped info about the language and not
> > from real facts. Btw. have anybody heard of a big Java project? I
> > heard that an office suite was dropped (I think it was Applixware), but
I
> > haven't heard any success stories.
> >
> > | who s using ADA anyways???
> >
> > Check http://www.adapower.com
> >
> > --
> > Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]
> >          "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling."
> >                                                       -- Athol Fugard
>
>