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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b98a6d739306a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: G Subject: Re: ada in australia, to the mystery emailer Date: 1999/11/16 Message-ID: <38312B69.CD29EC77@interact.net.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 549210000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <382E91FF.621BB2DB@interact.net.au> <382F2310.260C22C@boeing.com> <382FC770.81CA88A8@interact.net.au> <80qbv6$901$1@news5.fast.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Humanity Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > What sort of Comanche simulation are you working on ? Comanche is still in > development. Lots of changes coming down. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew Hey... well I am just doing a simple analysis. I know the Comanche is still under development. I have been playing Novalogic's cool-o-rama Comanche PC flight simulator for several years now. This got me interested in looking at the online (freely available) specifications for the RAH66. I am sort of killing two birds with one stone because I am learning how to construct technical specifications with shockwave Flash - I am working on a presentation for the RAH66. So, this gives me a lot of time thinking about the various systems and subsystems. I am using this to learn how to weave together a variety of elements into a simple representation in a package or three which can be imported into a simple simulation program. As for the real aircraft, it has some 1.2 million lines of code, about 83% of which is Ada - rivalling the F22 which has the odd hundred thousand or more lines, if memory serves me. So.. consider my simulation as something less than that... by oh... three or four light-years distance. :-) I study philosophy and ontology (and then some), or have done, and these sorts of mental gymnastics required in type casting, etc. are wonderful. There is just so much damn technology in the rah66 that I may as well be simulating a traffic helicopter for my own current ability - but the Comanche is such a beautiful thing... so that keeps me inspired. I am more interested in the patterns of organisation required to simulate than simulation itself, because I have a helluva lot to learn. OK :-) -Graeme.