On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:31:45AM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:26:03 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > >So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating that > >"Ada is obsolete" makes much more sense, ... > > > (citation needed) > > -- gil
http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.ada/decline/1410843 START QUOTE Ada ignorance pops up in unexpected places. I know a guy who is a friend of a friend who is in his early 50s and has worked for Honeywell for at least 20 years. This particular part of Honeywell is virtually a division of Boeing. He manages a project to send non-flight data from the 787 while it is parked at a gate. I asked what language they were using and he said C. I asked if any Ada was involved. His answer: "Ada is obsolete." END QUOTE (posted 3/13/2008 9:01:11 AM) In retrospective, perhaps this wasn't ignorance. Or perhaps this was just some small guy who knew roughly as much as I do. But even if he knew nothing, his opinions certainly came from somewhere. Or maybe this was all made up by a poster - this is Internet, after all. But it adds up. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
