[comp.infosystems] Ada

eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (11/28/89)

In article <MELLON.89Nov27182407@nigiri.pa.dec.com> 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

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