From: chris@D012S436.mch.sni.de (Christopher Costello)
Subject: Re: Astree project
Date: 13 Oct 1994 16:04:43 GMT
Date: 1994-10-13T16:04:43+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37jlqr$bk@horus.mch.sni.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37as01$rk2@cyclope.enst.fr
Jean-Pierre Rosen (rosen@enst.fr) wrote:
: The Astree project is a huge French project aiming at controlling in real
: time the location of all trains in France, and later to be connected to
: a European wide system.
: There was initially a debate about using Ada, but eventually it was decided
: to develop an initial prototype version in C.
: After developping 300 000 lines of C code, the prototype was found so
: unmaintainable that the decision was taken to throw everything away and
: to start over - in Ada.
: Ada fans are requested to refrain from smiling until the project is
: (succesfully) completed. :-)
I (and perhaps others) would be interested to know whether C++
was considered, and if so why C was preferred for the prototype
and Ada (presumably Ada83) for the present phase. But let us
know when we can start smiling!
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