Re: ada in australia, to the mystery emailer

[G <Dizzy@interact.net.au>]

Andrew wrote:

> Comanche software is written in Ada. And yes it is complex and it's going to
> get more complex. It's going to be awesome. Actually, Comanche avionics is
> complex than F-22s. Helicopter is much harder to fly then a plane.
>
> Comanche 3 (Novalogic) is pretty cool.
>
>

I underwrote the F22 sloc there - a mis-spelling.. should have been several
hundred thousand more lines of code than the Comanche quote.  At the time of the
graph i saw.

I do suppose that this sort of project - that is, the Rah-66 as a modular,
versatile and extensible system - it is obviously ideal for what I little I
understand of Ada.  I do gather that Ada was tailored to suit large-scale
systems design and the modularity of the language (what I am calling object
oriented stuff and packages, etc. for lack of better understanding) is obviously
perfect for extensibility.

From what I can gather from the documentation, the rah66 is designed such that
it will be able to assimilate and incorporate maturing and new technologies when
and if they arise.
A flexible system would obviously help there...

Novalogic ::= I play the 3 version but the 4 version is coming out now.  They
have (apparently) improved the Voxelspace technology for more fluid and
realistic environment
and physics.  I was even trying to download the Armored Fist 3 version but once
I tried to install it I found that 166 Mhz don't do the deed for the program - I
needed a 233 and 64 meg RAM, where I only have 32 - you would think people might
mention such things in their download pages, before I proceed with a marathon
international 27 megabytes over a standard modem phone line download hassle
thing.  Bitch of a thing coz I can not get the new versions of the game. *sigh*


All of which has just about sfa to do with ada...
:-)
G