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How many of them are left? I thought it was very much a dead language
by local_crmdgeon 3y ago
How many of them are left? I thought it was very much a dead language
- HideousKojima 3y agoThere are still plenty of Ada devs around, but they're almost all in the DoD or working for defense contractors.
- chasil 3y agoFar from it. "SQL/PSM (SQL/Persistent Stored Modules) is an ISO standard mainly defining an extension of SQL with a procedural language for use in stored procedures... SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language. However, Oracle has maintained a distance from the standard in its documentation. IBM's SQL PL (used in DB2) and Mimer SQL's PSM were the first two products officially implementing SQL/PSM. It is commonly thought that these two languages, and perhaps also MySQL/MariaDB's procedural language, are closest to the SQL/PSM standard. However, a PostgreSQL addon implements SQL/PSM (alongside its other procedural languages like the PL/SQL-derived plpgsql), although it is not part of the core product." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM
- timbit42 3y agoIt's still very popular in air traffic control. Some older NASA and military projects used it and are still in use.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoAs I understand, there's a very long tail of continued Ada use in military and aviation. So depends on your definition of "dead"
- trealira 3y agoNvidia uses it: https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-just-stopped-using-c https://blog.adacore.com/nvidia-security-team-what-if-we-jus...