Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems Subject: Re: Ada & IBM Message-ID: <7225@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 28 Nov 89 21:34:31 GMT References: Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu Reply-To: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 27 From mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon): > who would want to use Ada other than a military person Alcoa, which is using Ada for real-time process control in its aluminum processing operations; General Electric, which is using Ada for the software which controls its hot steel rolling system; Reuters, which is using Ada for its real-time financial information system, and many others. Ada is growing very quickly in the commercial sector, and with good reason. These reasons are described by David A. Feinberg, CDP, in the December 1987 issue of Data Management (a publication of the Data Processing Management Association, DPMA). Some excerpts: The new Ada programming language is proving to be a boon to software development activities... Programmers who have switched to Ada strongly feel that it is the best advance in software systems engineering since the introduction of the first high-level languages almost 30 years ago... Compiler availability on workstations suitable for business systems development represent a significant increment in tool usable by data processing personnel. This is particularly true when building online, real-time data processing systems. Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com