From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d8e86e1b9bb29940 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: R.B. Love Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada downsizing in space Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:15:46 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <2007021811154616807-rblove@airmailnet> References: <2007021717413416807-rblove@airmailnet> <366ma4-3m6.ln1@newserver.thecreems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Unison/1.7.9 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9358 Date: 2007-02-18T11:15:46-06:00 List-Id: On 2007-02-18 08:58:33 -0600, Jeffrey Creem said: > R. B. Love wrote: >> It was very pleasant reading the recent thread about "Ada is popular >> after all" but local events make me think other wise. >> >> I have to believe that the International Space Station (ISS) was one of >> the biggest Ada projects in the world, employing people in several >> nations writing Ada. NASA has decreed that there must be a 15% >> reduction in spending on ISS and Boeing responded Friday with layoff >> notices going to between 140 and 180 people. A good many of them are >> Ada programmers. > > > Do you have first hand knowledge that ISS has a lot of Ada. Well, as I said, I expect to remain hired for 5 years maintaining that Ada software that makes up the ISS. Let me see, there are between 45-50 flight computers on board the ISS on various US components. They are all programmed in Ada. I believe the Russian flight computers use C. The onboard, hand held PCs are mostly C/Linux. The large trainers for ISS use Ada almost exclusively. That was another 1-2 dozen programmers. Some of the foreign trainers use Ada. > NASA appears to have abandoned Ada around 10 years ago (That is not to > say that nothing was being done in Ada -- just most high visibility > things that you'd hear about were not done in Ada). I think it was part > of their Better, Faster, Cheaper (Choose any 0 of them) plan. ISS was under way before then. > >> >> All the work I see being done for CEV is C or C++. LockMart, the same >> people who spiked Ada for with the Secretary of the Air Force on SBIRS, >> seems determined to make everything C++. > > Sounds about right http://www.defense-aerospace.com/produit/40968_us.html This requires a login so I can't see it. Care to summarize?