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[Janina Sajka]

In truth, I know very little about ADA. I am aware, however, that I don't 
hear much about it anymore. Haven't for years, actually.

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:

> Hi Janina,
> Supposedly but I knew a programmer that was working on a big FAA project 
> using Ada.  I made her not happy with me when I predicted they'd fail.  
> It did.  If Ada was so great for defense applications how come most of 
> the people working for DoD kept asking for exceptions to their Ada 
> standard?  They normally wanted to work using C.
>      Jim
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, 
> Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> > Isn't ADA for guiding missles and that kind of application?
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Pete,
> > > I don't know Ada myself, but I've seen Ada listings and articles in 
> > > programming magazines like Dr. Dobb's Journal.  It seems syntactically 
> > > complex, much more so than say C++.
> > > 
> > >      Jim
> > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Pete wrote:
> > > 
> > > >   
> > > >   What about ADA as a starting point for learning programming?  
> > > >   Pete  
> > > > 
> > > > 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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