Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems Subject: Re: Ada Message-ID: <5658@eos.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 89 07:55:26 GMT References: <1989Nov19.201959.15369@sq.sq.com> <7127@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1989Nov25.233542.27475@sq.sq.com> <1943@netxcom.DHL.COM> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 24 In article mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) writes: > >But now that the military budget is on the chopping block, it would >appear that the demand for Ada should decline, rather than increase. >After all, who would want to use Ada other than a military person who >was forced to by the almighty specification? Many military/industrial complex satellites: NASA has designated Ada as the language of choice for any space station and many future projects, the aircraft industries want a single language, and quite a few other companies. You won't find many of them reading the net. The alternative is to have all these companies using "the thousand languages" the DOD found. It's a good question otherwise. Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Support the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com