Stability for Embedded Applications?

[zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!enea!sommar@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Erland Sommarskog)]

Also sprach Walter Dence (wdence@NSWC-WO.ARPA):
)Will the 1.10 product
)be available for 25 years?   Will it be Ada now that it is off of
)the validation list?  Should we upgrade with each new validation
)suite?  What about our expensive field testing and laboratory
)testing?  It now looks like we may go through 40 Ada validation
)versions over the life cycle of this system.  Will Ada ever hold
)still long enough for us to validate and certify our system?
)Will our Ada vendor be in business?  Will he still be
)revalidating for cross compilation to an 80286?

Will doomsday come in the next 25 years?
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way"
Christopher Morely