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From mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon):
> who would want to use Ada other than a military person 

   Alcoa, which is using Ada for real-time process control in
   its aluminum processing operations; General Electric, which 
   is using Ada for the software which controls its hot steel 
   rolling system; Reuters, which is using Ada for its real-time 
   financial information system, and many others.  Ada is growing
   very quickly in the commercial sector, and with good reason.

   These reasons are described by David A. Feinberg, CDP, in the
   December 1987 issue of Data Management (a publication of the
   Data Processing Management Association, DPMA).  Some excerpts:

      The new Ada programming language is proving to be a
      boon to software development activities... Programmers
      who have switched to Ada strongly feel that it is the 
      best advance in software systems engineering since the
      introduction of the first high-level languages almost
      30 years ago... Compiler availability on workstations
      suitable for business systems development represent a
      significant increment in tool usable by data processing
      personnel.  This is particularly true when building
      online, real-time data processing systems.

   
   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu