Re: Any ADA NASA Developer's out there?

["Bill Ward" <bill_Ward@realitycoder.com>]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:16:40 -0700, Jerry Petrey wrote:

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> Bill Ward wrote:
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>> I am doing a paper for school on career interests. One career interest I
>> have is to develop software for NASA.  I was wondering if there are any
>> ADA developers at NASA that watch this thread.  I would very much like to
>> speak with you if so.
> 
> Ada was used for the flight software on the Cassini mission (which arrives at
> Saturn this year) as well as the
> extremely successful NEAR mission (along with Forth) see
> http://near.jhuapl.edu/PDF/PS.pdf .
> 
> Jerry
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Thank you for your input Jerry.  Many of my friends tell me that noone
uses Ada anymore and now I can them they are wrong.  Those will be some
interesting facts to put into my paper. thanks again.