Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry

[Fionn Mac Cumhaill <invisible@hiding.from.spam>]

On Fri, 4 May 2007 04:17:05 -0800, <adaworks@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Rod,
>
>Thanks.
>
>Richard
><roderick.chapman@googlemail.com> wrote in message 
>news:1178268426.023944.289630@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>> On May 4, 6:47 am, "Randy Brukardt" <r...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
>>> Speaking of Praxis, they just had an announcement on a new air traffic
>>> control system (in the UK) that is programmed in Ada.
>>
>> Indeed - iFacts is very large, new, and using Ada (and SPARK of
>> course...)
>> Check out out press release here:
>>  http://www.praxis-his.com/news/radarMar2007.asp
>>
>> We _won_ this project by bidding Correctness by Construction, Formal
>> Methods,
>> Ada, SPARK etc. etc, against some very stuff competition.
>> - Rod
>> 
>

I just started a new project where I work, and I'm using Ada. It's
about as different from an air traffic control system as you can get.
I'm going to be using Ada to interrogate a MySQL database and push the
resulting reports to a web server on our in-house network. I'm running
a 2-person shop, and the other guy only does Crystal Reports, so I
need all the help I can get from my programming language. I don't want
to waste time and effort on fighting both C and SQL. Ada and I can
gang up on SQL and beat it into submission.