RE: Bye-bye Ada ? (Ada95 Wholesale Changes?)

["Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" <frank.beard@navy.mil>]

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From: Warren W. Gay VE3WWG [mailto:ve3wwg@cogeco.ca]

> CURIOUSITY POLL?
>
> I'd be interested if anyone actually uses this type of
> procedure in more "critical" application development roles.
> I am sure that others must take advantage of this, if not
> secretly so? ;-)  Is this type of thing frowned upon by
> DOD projects, or do they even know this type of thing
> happens? Just curious.

I don't know how "critical" you mean, but I've used this
feature of Ada on a number of occasions which stemmed 
multiple projects from running the on ground test chambers 
for the Space Shuttle group, to the onboard Space Station
data storage and retrieval component, to a Naval 
communications project.

Even though our tools usually give us the capability to
see a callers graph, it is still more useful to prototype
changes in the spec and have the compiler reliably show me
the immediate impacts of the changes.  And once the changes
made it to fruition, they required very little debugging.

I don't think I've ever openly shared this information even
with fellow Ada developers, but it sure does make things
easier.

Frank