Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/24/13 17:45 CST: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> For anyone who builds ada (really ? why ? :) in BLFS, I guess they >> are going to be missing the ada info files. > > I did some Ada coding once (1990s), but not for production. It has > *very* strong type checking and is sometimes used where very high > reliability is needed. For instance, I could see (but don't know) Ada > being used in the Mars lander.
Very interesting that you used NASA stuff as an example. I hired a guy that had coded for a NASA contractor and his thing was ADA. He said that the NASA standards used ADA extensively. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 18:05:00 up 81 days, 4:04, 1 user, load average: 0.51, 0.31, 0.17 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
