<story><title>Who&apos;s Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language</title><url>http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>acomjean</author><text>A lot of radar systems run on Ada.  Its takes a little getting used to, but its a good language.&lt;p&gt;Ada has a c binding package so it can call down to the OS libraries (networking, shared memory), which is great, but kills some of the niceness of living in an ada world.&lt;p&gt;When I was trying out GO, I got a little ada flashback for some reason.&lt;p&gt;The package system was good.&lt;p&gt;I disliked ada strings though.&lt;p&gt;When I left the industry, they were looking for alernative  languages for new projects.  
GCC Ada compiler was being considered for maintaining older projects, seemed decent.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-edition/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;libre.adacore.com&amp;#x2F;tools&amp;#x2F;gnat-gpl-edition&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Who&apos;s Using Ada? Real-World Projects Powered by the Ada Programming Language</title><url>http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thejteam</author><text>Although I&amp;#x27;ve never coded in Ada I have had to read existing code to figure out what it was doing.&lt;p&gt;Ada struck me as a language that would be a pain to write in(at least it would take a long time) but it was a pleasure to read. Even without an intimate knowledge of the language (I was a C++ guy) I was able to figure it out.</text></comment>