Randy McMurchy wrote: > 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.
Nitpick: Its Ada, not ADA. Ada stands for Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, the first programmer. She worked with Charles Babbage. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
