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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f0e0f51349dbfa9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-14 12:39:12 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!wizard.pn.com!Germany.EU.net!Munich.Germany.EU.net!thoth.mch.sni.de!horus.mch.sni.de!D012S436!chris From: chris@D012S436.mch.sni.de (Christopher Costello) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Astree project Date: 13 Oct 1994 16:04:43 GMT Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG Distribution: comp Message-ID: <37jlqr$bk@horus.mch.sni.de> References: <37as01$rk2@cyclope.enst.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: d012s436.mch.sni.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: 1994-10-13T16:04:43+00:00 List-Id: 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! -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SIEMENS Christopher Costello Tel: +49 89 636 40367 | | ======= SNI BU BA NM 123 Fax: +49 89 636 45860 | | NIXDORF Muenchen, Germany E-mail: Christopher.Costello@mch.sni.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+