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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a9b49a9162025eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-06 11:13:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Bye-bye Ada ? (Ada95 Wholesale Changes?) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:12:48 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1044558781 39849 137.194.161.2 (6 Feb 2003 19:13:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:13:01 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message Thread-Topic: Bye-bye Ada ? (Ada95 Wholesale Changes?) Thread-Index: AcLODGQrYoafPCa2SsC1+UgbHRmDIAAA70iQ X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Feb 2003 19:12:48.0844 (UTC) FILETIME=[BCE240C0:01C2CE13] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33844 Date: 2003-02-06T14:12:48-05:00 -----Original Message----- 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=20 multiple projects from running the on ground test chambers=20 for the Space Shuttle group, to the onboard Space Station data storage and retrieval component, to a Naval=20 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