[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Paul Sture]

In article <00ACE3D9.F7BAA3E3 at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
 VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:

> In article <kegcsp$nke$3 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley 
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> >On 2013-02-01, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> >> In article <an0jjrFduj7U1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill 
> >> Gunshannon) writes:
> >>
> >>>I've seen more comments in COBOL than in Ada.  Does that make COBOL a
> >>>better language for writing an F16 Flight Control System?
> >>
> >> Does that make Ada a better language for writing a financial application?
> >>  
> >
> >Actually, Ada probably _is_ a better language than COBOL for writing
> >financial applications. :-)
> 
> But find an accountant that knows Ada. :)
> 
> Last time I used Ada was when working for GE AstroSpace/NASA on the Mars
> Observer.  I didn't mind it.  What was frightening were the many people 
> employed for this project that did NOT know Ada and, equally frightening,
> they couldn't even program their way to the loo!  Nothing new, I suppose.
> I saw the same when working a Navy contract.

I used Ada in a financial institution but that was a system monitoring 
tool.  While it worked fine I wasn't overly impressed with the quality 
of at least some of the code.  That project used MMS and CMS too, but 
for some reason mimicked the donkey work those could have done in some 
3000 lines of DCL.  Go figure...

Apparently they also used Ada for a trading system atop VMS and IIRC 
with Motif.

-- 
Paul Sture