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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a08fb1edcbd73f50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,a08fb1edcbd73f50 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2fba5a8c5be7a631 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-11 19:43:01 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.realtime,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Safety-Critical Market -Size? Date: 11 Sep 1994 13:50:42 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <34vg1i$e2v@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <34n5rg$1sm@news.ED.RAY.COM> <34q3qv$66p@rational.rational.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.software-eng:17575 comp.realtime:4804 comp.lang.ada:14622 Date: 1994-09-11T13:50:42-04:00 List-Id: In article , COUGER GORDON wrote: >The automotive, trucking, farm and industrial equepment are the biggest >users of computer cpu's and they all are safety-critical. Most of the code >is written by indivugals and I don't know of any software being marketed. >It would be a good place for real time kernels but the rest of the software >is pretty device specfic. I think. A year or so ago, someone I know in the Ada community mentioned that he had been to an embedded systems conference and heard someone mention, during a session, that some significant amount of automotive code in his company had been written in Ada. According to my source, there was something of a flap over this, and the speaker was nearly fired for letting the cat out of the bag about his employer's use of Ada. Can anyone confirm or refute? Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5253 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------