On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Richard Maine wrote:
> > ADA still being seriously used?
>
> Yes. Very much so. Mostly in a pretty limited application domain...
Indeed. You may recall the failure of ESA's first Ariane-5 rocket: the
failure to handle an overflow exception properly in ADA was one of the
chain of mistakes which caused the rocket to blow up. (If you want to see
the report on the failure, search Google for "Ariane 501 report" and the
second item has it.)
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Clive Page,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Leicester, U.K.
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