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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
