Re: Hey, what is all this 'off topic' posting?

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:03:39 -0700, Bob Monsen <rcsurname@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



>A TA in college worked at IBM, and liked PL/1. Another cool language which
>seems to have no following these days is ada, probably because they never
>got out the secure compilers.

I'm working with some guys who are doing the realtime control stuff
for NIF, the world's biggest laser, and they're coding in ADA.

Their computers aren't allowed to have *any* path to the outside
world, and it practically took permission from the Pope before they'd
connect my modulator boxes to their local ethernet loop.

I think a lot of military stuff is still coded in ADA, too.


John


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