"R. David Steele" wrote in message
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| | I thought that we had moved beyond ADA?
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| |How?
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| Had we not stopped programming in ADA? C++ or something has
| replaced it? Good lord, ADA is like PL1.
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|The Ada-95 release does not cause older software to be made good.

I am not even aware of an university that teaches ADA. I
remember when ADA was first talked about. It was joked about as
the new and improved PL1.

It is. Lockheed went for the DARPA subsidy for Ada, it was part of their
cooperative attitude that won the fly off.

You have to consider that Lockheed won the contract to build the YF-22 with
an airframe design that would not even fly. The YF-22 that was built is for
the most part the GD entry. Next, Lockheed built their main computer based
on an i960 based MPP. Intel's attempt to build the i432, an i860 based MPP,
nearly bankrupted Intel. Later, lockmart dumped their Avionics division to
BAE systems, due to "competitiveness" issues.

Can't C++ do as well?

No, but C has.