From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:08:19 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-04-23T11:08:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnbact04.tee.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnbacsg4.ot.sam@willow.dyn.rfc1149.net
Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
>
>> Russ wrote:
>>> I have a question for someone with extensive knowledge of military
>>> software. What percentage of the military equipment used in the recent
>>> war in Iraq was programmed in Ada?
>>
>> Why?
>
> Why not? This question is as interesting as many others asked in this
> newsgroup, and you didn't question each of them :)
No no, I meant why as in: Why do you want to know, what are you using it
for?
I don't think Ada will gain any popularity if people start with
signatures like: 60% of the software in the War on Iraq was written in
Ada. May be in military circles, but not elsewhere.
--
Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/
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2003-04-23 7:06 Ada in Iraq Russ
2003-04-23 10:52 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-23 10:59 ` Samuel Tardieu
2003-04-23 11:08 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2003-04-23 17:18 ` tmoran
2003-04-23 17:51 ` Russ
2003-04-23 18:07 ` Bill Findlay
2003-04-24 5:51 ` Stefan Scholl
2003-04-24 11:32 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-04-24 14:03 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-29 16:50 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-04-29 17:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-04-30 3:22 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-30 13:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-04-30 15:13 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2003-04-25 1:12 ` Russ
2003-04-25 5:34 ` John R. Strohm
2003-04-26 3:25 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-25 5:55 ` Stefan Scholl
2003-04-25 8:20 ` John McCabe
2003-04-25 8:33 ` Anders Wirzenius
2003-05-12 12:01 ` Wesley Parish
2003-04-25 15:01 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-25 15:13 ` Samuel Tardieu
2003-04-25 15:46 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-28 8:17 ` John McCabe
2003-04-29 17:43 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-04-25 19:42 ` John R. Strohm
2003-04-25 20:42 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-25 23:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-04-26 6:48 ` John R. Strohm
2003-04-26 22:24 ` Frode Tennebø
2003-04-27 3:11 ` John R. Strohm
2003-04-28 8:20 ` John McCabe
2003-04-28 21:16 ` Frode Tennebø
2003-04-29 8:16 ` John McCabe
2003-04-26 3:38 ` AG
2003-04-27 19:57 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-27 20:32 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-26 3:29 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-27 20:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-27 20:37 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-27 22:00 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-27 23:19 ` John R. Strohm
2003-04-28 16:45 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-28 17:33 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-28 20:46 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-29 6:21 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-29 13:35 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-29 13:57 ` Steve
2003-04-29 14:02 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2003-04-29 14:12 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2003-04-29 16:15 ` Jerry Petrey
2003-04-30 8:02 ` John McCabe
2003-04-30 18:20 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-30 20:14 ` Marc A. Criley
2003-04-29 18:40 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-25 17:46 ` Mike Silva
2003-04-25 19:52 ` John R. Strohm
2003-04-26 3:33 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-27 20:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-04-27 21:55 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-28 17:33 ` Mike Silva
2003-04-28 17:34 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-26 16:18 ` Richard Riehle
2003-04-28 8:29 ` John McCabe
2003-04-28 13:36 ` Steve
2003-04-29 18:33 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-04-30 8:09 ` John McCabe
2003-04-30 22:55 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-04-25 20:00 ` Simon Wright
2003-04-23 15:51 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-04-23 18:52 ` Bernd Specht
2003-04-23 19:06 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-24 5:27 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-04-23 20:28 ` Stefan Scholl
2003-04-24 0:39 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-24 5:27 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-04-24 15:21 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-24 17:19 ` Jerry Petrey
2003-04-25 8:28 ` John McCabe
2003-04-29 17:08 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-04-30 8:19 ` John McCabe
2003-04-30 22:59 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2003-05-01 8:17 ` John McCabe
2003-04-25 12:38 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-24 1:36 ` Russ
2003-04-24 5:27 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-04-24 5:55 ` Stefan Scholl
2003-04-24 10:40 ` John McCabe
2003-04-24 14:06 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-24 15:24 ` Preben Randhol
2003-04-24 18:17 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-25 5:58 ` Stefan Scholl
2003-04-29 17:01 ` [OT derived from] " Colin Paul Gloster
2003-04-23 16:16 ` Marc A. Criley
2003-04-24 2:18 ` BurnsedBW
2003-04-24 15:38 ` Jerry Petrey
[not found] ` <eb7kn-i6c.ln1@beastie.ix.netcom.com>
2003-04-24 13:47 ` Wesley Groleau
2003-04-25 0:18 ` Richard Riehle
2003-04-25 5:37 ` John R. Strohm
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-24 2:37 Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2003-04-24 19:45 ` W D Tate
2003-04-25 6:25 ` AG
2003-04-25 16:21 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
2003-04-25 17:43 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-04-25 18:53 ` Chad R. Meiners
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