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Didn’t the Department of Defense try to mandate Ada in the 1980s? That went nowhere.
by hed 2y ago
Didn’t the Department of Defense try to mandate Ada in the 1980s? That went nowhere.
- firesteelrain 2y agoAda 95 is still around. I know personally and have used it. It is being slowly ripped out of a major system but it persists. AdaCore and GNAT help a lot too.
- pjmlp 2y agoIt went to 7 Ada vendors still in business in 2024, in an age where many folks refuse to pay for their work tools. Folks that play the Ada card don't get then issues regarding compiler prices for Ada, versus C and C++ free UNIX compilers (it was an additional license on UNIX SDKs), the hardware requirements, the salaries for devs with Ada skills, and yet those 7 companies manage to stay in business.