Aviation Week Article

Aviation Week Article

[Ken Garlington]

And the good news just keeps on coming...

Aviation Week and Space Technology, December 11, 2000
AERObyte section (pg. 31) edited by Michael A. Dornheim (mdornheim@att.net)
Correspondence to dhugh@aviationnow.com

"SWEEPING UP AFTER ADA

"It's hard to find software programmers fluent in Jovial [sic] and Ada these
days, but many aerospace products use these languages. Cleanscape Software
International (cleanscape.net) and ITCN (itcninc.com) want to establish an
alliance of companies to develop or upgrade aerospace computing systems,
starting with tools to program the ubiquitous Mil-Std-1750A
radiation-hardened processor in the widely used C language. Cleanscape makes
software development environments, and ITCN makes test equipment for
embedded systems."

See also http://www.itcninc.com/news/pr001029.htm

Re: Aviation Week Article

[Gautier]

"There are entire fleets of aircraft and weapons systems needing to be retrofit
 with modern technology".

Ooops! Are the lousy pointers escaped from their PDP-11 about to drive the
"B2 Stealth Bomber to the F14, F15, and F18 fighter aircraft" 
and maybe nuclear missiles ?...

Tous aux abris! (an expression in French)

Someone to warn the new President, Mr xxxx (4 letters) ?
 
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Gautier  --  http://members.nbci.com/gdemont/gsoft.htm

Re: Aviation Week Article

[Preben Randhol]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:39:59 +0100, Gautier wrote:
>"There are entire fleets of aircraft and weapons systems needing to be retrofit
> with modern technology".
>
>Ooops! Are the lousy pointers escaped from their PDP-11 about to drive the
>"B2 Stealth Bomber to the F14, F15, and F18 fighter aircraft" 
>and maybe nuclear missiles ?...
>
>Someone to warn the new President, Mr xxxx (4 letters) ?
 
 Mr Bore ? (hihi)

But to claim that C is modern technology compare to Ada strikes me as
odd.

   �We are sorry that we bombed ....., but it was due to an pointer
   error pointing to the wrong coordinates.�

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Re: Aviation Week Article

[Graeme]

So I presume that means that we (in Australia) can soon expect Space Shuttles,
Satellites, Cruise Missiles, F117a's and miscellaneous other flotsam and jetsam of
the military
industrial complex to start raining down from above...

I read once that an unnamed Air Force... well, maybe the USAF once accidentally
dropped a ??kiloton bomb on Goldsboro (sp. ?) NC and five of the six safety
mechanisms
failed.  Ouch.  Doctor Strangelove rides again.

I gather that what you guys are saying is that C just isn't any where near as safe
as Ada.
Even as a student of all this IT stuff, I find C aesthetically abhorrent to read
through.  IMHO.

G.
*summertime downunder*
Preben Randhol wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 16:39:59 +0100, Gautier wrote:
> >"There are entire fleets of aircraft and weapons systems needing to be retrofit
> > with modern technology".
> >
> >Ooops! Are the lousy pointers escaped from their PDP-11 about to drive the
> >"B2 Stealth Bomber to the F14, F15, and F18 fighter aircraft"
> >and maybe nuclear missiles ?...
> >
> >Someone to warn the new President, Mr xxxx (4 letters) ?
>
>  Mr Bore ? (hihi)
>
> But to claim that C is modern technology compare to Ada strikes me as
> odd.
>
>    �We are sorry that we bombed ....., but it was due to an pointer
>    error pointing to the wrong coordinates.�
>
> --
> Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
> iMy favorite editor is Emacs!<ESC>bcwVim<ESC>
>                                          -- vim best-editor.txt