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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@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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