Jon and Mike,
I received an automatic acknowledgement that
the following had been submitted to the moderator
of the Team-Ada email list last week but I have
not noticed its penetration to the list so I
post it to news:comp.lang.ada and send it to
you as blind carbon copies.
Yours sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster
In an email timestamped Wed, 9 Apr 2008 06:43:26 -0400 (EDT), C. P. G.
sent:
"Michael Feldman emailed:
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|Ada is definitely going strong in Europe,|
|often in domains that we don't |
|have here, like high-speed rail systems."|
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I currently reside in Europe and I am unemployed
and I am not finding it easy to find work. Last
month I even resorted to applying for jobs with
weakly typed languages. If any one reading this
list would like to consider employing someone
who appreciates the virtues of Ada's strong
typing, then please contact me.
Some European railway systems use Ada, but
unfortunately C++ was and possibly still is
also used for railways (I discussed this with a
C++ user on Usenet years ago). The Tuscan
company Intecs which used to be the point of
contact for Ada-Italy disgracefully used the
European Space Agency's technology transfer
office to promote for railways an operating
system "completely written in C" whose
interface is only in C "because this is what"
the customers want according to the presenter
at 10:37a.m. on June 6th, 2003 during a
DASIA (DAta Systems In Aerospace (sic))
conference. I do not know whether it was ever
deployed. At 10:19a.m. the presenter confirmed
that it had not been certified against a
CENELEC railway standard.
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|[..] Each country has its national |
|railway system, which tended to prefer |
|domestic equipment for obvious reasons."|
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American spacecraft have blown up due to a
requirement to earn taxes from every state
of the United States of America.
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|Naturally this is all heavily software-driven - modern |
|trains have "glass cockpits" (flat-screen displays |
|instead of physical gauges) just as planes do. And the |
|speed controls and track switches are all computer-controlled.|
|As far as I can tell, Ada is heavily present in all those |
|systems over there. |
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Being written in Ada is a good thing, but it is not enough
without thought. I am aware of one person who uses Ada for
railways in Europe who has stated in print that it is not
safety-critical!
Sincerely,
Colin Paul Gloster"
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