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At 6:28 pm +0100 30/1/01, Pascal Obry wrote:
>Ian Sommerville writes:
> > Ada has not had the impact which I and many others anticipated and is
> > now primarily used for defence and aerospace systems. Few
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>That is plain wrong. Please have a look at the lastest stats !
Where do I find these? I don't know of anyone outside the defence
industry in the UK using Ada (of course, there probably are some
peopleI haven't heard of but for sure not many)
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> > Personally, I think that Ada is a better language than java for
> > software engineering but the academic and commercial markets do not
> > agree. I have to be realistic about this and make changes that are
> > aimed at the majority of users. I would be surprised if you found any
> > new texts that used Ada.
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>I would be very surprised to not found texts using Ada !
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I haven't seen any apart from specialised Ada textbooks (but of
course that doesn't mean they don't exist)
Thanks for your comments
Ian
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