Re: Eiffel for DoD development?

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

>>   Business Applications
>	Yes, I believe so.  Especially when you combine the
>	Information Systems Annex with Ada 9X.  Perhaps throw in the
>	Distribution Systems Annex for "CLient-Server" applications.
>	Am I missing something?

I've done open systems-based client/server computing in Ada.  Ada
works very well, and provides advantages over other solutions.  See
the paper we wrote on this in the proceedings of the Software
Technology Conference from April 94.

>>   Prototyping
>	In general, I find Ada quite suitable for prototyping,
>	however, if you'll look at my original post, I distinctly
>	said "not prototyping or R&D work".  

I've done this, too.  For prototyps that evolve into 'real systems',
Ada is excellent.  The advantage is that Ada supports prototyping the
structure of systems (i.e. the package design).

				dave
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