On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 03:33:23PM -0400, Bob Munck wrote:
> HP is, I believe, the largest developer of s/w for medical systems,
> and they use Ada for them.
Hmmm, really? I would have guessed GE (because of their Medical Systems
Division, mostly located in Milwaukee). But I've been out of the field
for ~5 years, so maybe my sense of who's working on what is out-of-date.
BTW, I've written life-critical software for medical imaging systems (while
working at Omnimedical) as well as imaging software which had to pass
FDA approval (while at the UPenn Hospital Radiology Department). I certainly
won't pretend to be an expert on the topic, but on the other hand, I'm
well aware of the responsibility that comes with knowing that a software
bug in one's code could kill someone. (That's why, BTW, I was the first
one into the Quad-1 scanner when the beam was powered up.)
> My apologies to the List for language flaming, but I do strongly believe
> that anyone who wants to build a business on developing software for
> the Web would greatly increase their productivity and reduce their long-
> term risk by using Ada 95.
My apologies as well, and the rest of my response is in comp.lang.misc,
which is probably more appropriate. But the bottom line is that Ada
is dead, buried, gone and good riddance.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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