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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?
Date: 18 May 2004 05:45:10 +0100
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Anders Wirzenius <anders@no.email.thanks.invalid> writes:

> Here is another way of doing early reviewing:
> In early 80's I worked for a Fortran community. My co-programmer and
> I started to use Ada as a pseudo-code language. We made a code
> review of the Ada code and did not start the detailed Fortran coding
> until the review had approved the pseudo-code. The Ada code was left
> in the programs as comments.

I did the same, '87 or so, with assembler (for a Mascot kernel for a
Ferranti F1600-series machine); the Ada code had to compile too,
though there were two points where 'magic occurs here'.

Led to some entertaining rumours about an Ada compiler for the
machine.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.