Re: Ada in Boeing 787

[MRE <Marc.Enzmann@web.de>]

On 4 Feb., 05:09, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
> I have an engineer friend who is a long-time employee of Honeywell
> Flight Systems who claims that the Boeing 787 does not use Ada ("It's
> an old language"). My friend, as i recall, manages a project involving
> the airplane's entertainment system which he says uses C and C++ and
> not Ada. I don't doubt that his subsystem uses C but a bit of web
> research seems to indicate that the flight systems use Ada. Who is
> right--the web or my friend who works on the airplane?

Your friend will probably know about SW on the seven-late-seven as I
do about software on the A380.
Though I'ven been working on the fat baby for almost five years, I can
only tell you which language
was used for the Doors and Slides Management System: C.

Usually you just see the feet of the elephant in such a project.
Interesting though, that the arguments
against Ada are the same ones they were using at my old company: "We
don't use Ada, it's old fashioned. We use
C, which is much more modern!" Sigh!

Does your friend also tell you, that you must not use object-
orientation because "this is not deterministic" ?

Sending regards while shaking my head,

Marc