MIKE FELDMAN RECENTLY WROTE (IN AN ALMOST UNRELATED EMAIL-THREAD NOW DEAD):
>My recurring dream is that the vendor will back up that gimmick with
>a real push for Ada in the non-"mandated", truly commercial, market-
>place. Can it happen?
Yes, it can and is (according to at least one data point): I recently
received the following email inside TRW from a fellow employee (BL)
who has been a subscriber to the "Ada: Death of a Legend" school in
recent years, where he forwards a mesage from someone (GH) who has
been circulating his resume. [Actually, this reports not on an Ada
compiler vendor, but multiple commercial products vendors -- but, I'll
take some pull if I can't get enough push, and this may be better!]
-- Hal
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Subject: Time: 10:19 PM
OFFICE MEMO FWD>For You Ada Lovers Date: 11/15/96
For those of you who are sick and tired of people like me going around
and constantly proclaiming that Ada is a dead language: Excerpts from a
message GH sent detailing his experience in finding a jobwith Ada experience.
BL
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By the way, Ada is beginning to have an industrial, non-government
life. Triconex is supplying large scale industrial companies, like
refineries, utilities, ... What a surprise!
I am not kidding. Virtually every contact since the August mailings
of my resume have involved interest in Ada, with perhaps the exception
of one. Triconex is non-government, very industrial. They are
planning to do their next generation system in Ada. Specifically, a
subset which is apparantly referred to in Appendix H of the Ada 95
spec, which I have never seen. They sell embedded real-time control
systems to larger industrial customers that need continuous up time,
reliability, and safety.
GH
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