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It's pretty famously used by the US government for safety-critical software.
by ropejumper 2y ago
It's pretty famously used by the US government for safety-critical software.
- dkjaudyeqooe 2y agoAlso avionics and air traffic control
- trentnelson 2y agoAnd train control systems.
- Jtsummers 2y agoIt was created by the US government, or at least by committee for the US government, specifically the DOD. There was a DOD mandate to use Ada, that lasted about 5 minutes before the rebellion against it won out. There's not a lot of new (this century) software written at the DOD's request in Ada.
- ropejumper 2y agoThat's interesting. For some reason I imagined it's still a requirement now.