On 1 Feb 2005 at 20:56, Rick Engebretson wrote:
I don't believe Ada was ever intended as a general purpose, commercial, programming language.
From the "Rationale for the Ada Programming Language:"
"Ada is a modern programming language suitable for those application areas which benefit from the discipline of organized development, that is, Software Engineering; it is a general purpose language with special applicability to real-time and embedded systems."
and:
"Although Ada was originally designed to provide a single flexible yet portable language for real-time embedded systems to meet the needs of the US DoD, its domain of application has expanded to include many other areas, such as large-scale information systems, distributed systems, scientific computation, and systems programming. Furthermore, its user base has expanded to include all major defense agencies of the Western world, the whole of the aerospace community and increasingly many areas in civil and private sectors such as telecommunications, process control and monitoring systems. Indeed, the expansion in the civil sector is such that civil applications now generate the dominant revenues of many vendors."
Reference:
http://www.adaic.org/standards/95rat/RAThtml/rat95-p1-1.html
-- Dave