Re: Joint Strike Fighter

[ian0kerr@my-deja.com (Ian)]

"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> wrote in message news:<9rp8mo$6d8$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
> To be generous, there may be issues surrounding the availability of tools
> and utilities. There is a lot of stuff available for C++ that you might have
> a hard time duplicating in Ada.

Working currently on the VSTOL predecessor of JSF I don't find
anything that we need from Ada and the available tools that C++ would
provide. Our process,(on a different project) is described in FULL in:

GENESYS An Application of OO technology to Aircraft Display Systems,
Neil Davidson, BAE Systems Avionics Ltd, Presented in Symposium on
Reliable Object Orientated Programming, at Institution of Electrical
Engineers, Savoy Place, London, 24th October 2001.

Except we use a substitute for Labview. We don't have a problem
recruiting Ada experienced software engineers and then practically
everyone who wants it gets training. I have done courses on
statecharts, UML, UML to Ada95 code generation, Test instrumentation
tools for Ada and  Ada95 updates.

I don't think it is that difficult to do avionics in Ada95 if you
already know C++ properly, (assuming some knowledge of SW Engineering
principles). On a large project there is a lot of opportunities for
mentoring from other more experienced team members.

Ian