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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108abf,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108abf,public From: David Gillon Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Date: 2000/01/17 Message-ID: <3882E9C9.3FBB844B@gecm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573681388 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8859.621FA20B@netscape.net> <387CC1C0.4C57E34C@quadruscorp.com> <387CEE4A.3965@Ganymede.com> <387F8E50.11D27E14@quadruscorp.com> <85oclj$nbp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <387FCA73.3A61@Ganymede.com> <85ok6v$iee$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com> <3880CCC7.261957BC@quadruscorp.com> <388274ac.42926465@news.mpinet.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 17 Jan 2000 10:07:39 GMT, rc3284.rochstr.gmav.gecm.com Organization: BAE SYSTEMS MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,rec.aviation.military Date: 2000-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jtarver wrote: > > I hope he doesn't fly on Boeing 777 A/C as they are as close to 100% > > Ada based as possible (see http://adaic.org/docs/flyers/boe-777.shtml) > > In fact Boeining studied using Ada and then rejected it along with the ARPA > funding using the language would have provided. In order to fly on a civil > airplane running under Ada you would have to fly on a 717. Of course I only > built 777s I spent four years or so coding the 777 flight control system in Ada (and as it happens was project point-of-contact for the DEC XD-Ada compiler, which was probably the most trouble-free of the three compilers the code was targetted against). -- David Gillon