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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-23 04:08:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1051096099 7970 129.241.83.78 (23 Apr 2003 11:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:08:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36401 Date: 2003-04-23T11:08:19+00:00 List-Id: 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/