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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: to.reply@read.my.sig (Rick Thorne) Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420156658 References: <366C0197.49B15B12@spam.innocon.com> Organization: Some, but limited Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <366C0197.49B15B12@spam.innocon.com>, Jeff Carter wrote: > I hate to tell you this, but the next time you fly in a modern airliner, > the fly-by-wire software controlling it was written in Ada. Most of the > air-traffic-control software in the world, including growing parts in > the USA, is written in Ada. Your life depends on a rotting language. Is your point that because the air traffic control market is Ada turf that Ada is alive and well? I dunno if I buy that argument at all. Perhaps you can help me: is there a point to your reply? If you're saying that Ada isn't a rotting language because 0.3% of software development environments are still using it, I hardly think your argument is valid. The space shuttle software is written in Jovial. It's man-rated software too. Could I conclude then that Jovial's on the rise?!? -- ? Rick Thorne ? "I'm quite illiterate, ? ? software engineer by day ? but I read a lot" ? ? harried father of two by night ? J. D. Salinger ? ? rick.thorne@lmco.com ? ? ? http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/6816/ ?