oz@nexus.YorkU.CA (Ozan Yigit) (05/12/91)
[posted on behalf of allan.cobb@ccs.yorku.ca] From: Allan.Cobb@CCS.YorkU.CA Date: Fri, 10 May 91 13:35:00 EDT My university, York University in Toronto, Canada, is considering the use of Ada for a large database management application, specifically a student information system. I would greatly appreciate any descriptions (even if brief) of large software development projects of "mission critical" systems, which have used Ada. I am interested in why Ada was chosen for the project and whether the programmming language and related design methodolgies proven successful. For this purpose, I am interested in all types of applications, whether or not they have been undertaken in a university environment. Please send me any such descriptions by email (allan.cobb@ccs.yorku.ca); I shall be happy to post a summary. Allan +------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Allan Cobb, Senior Director, Information Technology | York University | +-------------------------------+----------------------+ Computing & Commun-| | Phone: (416) 736-5257, #22690 | FAX: (416) 736-5700 | ication Services | +-----------------------+-------+----------------------+ 4700 Keele Street | | Voice Mail: 736-5292; | Email: | North York, Ontario| | specify ext. 22690 | allan.cobb @ ccs.yorku.ca | M3J 1P3 Canada | +-----------------------+------------------------------+--------------------+
gbooch@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Grady Booch) (05/17/91)
I response to allan's request. one such project I was involved in was stanfins-r, a 1million + line application in ada, using a commercial relational database (on ibm mainframes); the application was for typical inventory control/accounts processing on army posts. the project used rational's development environment for ada work; we also worked with them to use my oo method. the project delivered on time, and in budget. based upon the suggess of the project, at least one other service cancelled a similar project for its mis needs, and decided to reuse the stanfins products. there are some papers by the developer (csc) that I could probably dig up, if I don't get overwhelmed with requests for it. egb