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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-09 13:38:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!onews.collins.rockwell.com!not-for-mail From: Britt Snodgrass Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:43:10 -0600 Organization: N/A Message-ID: <3A5B77DE.D954CC83@adapower.net> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> <3A529C97.2CA4777F@home.com> <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br> <3A5466DE.811D43A5@acm.org> <932aol$ikc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932mi6$r2k$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9343b1$3g5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <934iuf$eqv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <937kc7$ssq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93c0e9$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93e33l$tfu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93ekmo$a14$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93fd9v$s03$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93fpth$697$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Reply-To: britt@adapower.net NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.collins.rockwell.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en]C-CCK-MCD (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3837 Date: 2001-01-09T14:43:10-06:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > and actually Jovial was still in active use > as recently as ten years ago (I think JUG was still meeting > that late -- surely someone here will fill in the date -- > certainly I talked at a couple of JUG meetings). Rockwell Collins is still maintaining JOVIAL software in military GPS receivers today. JOVIAL was required by the original (early 1980's) development contract with the Air Force. Some of the legacy software has been converted to Ada 83 while most new code is now written in Ada 83 and, to a lesser extent, C. Rockwell has contracted with A.C.T to provide a Ada 95 compiler for the AAMP processor used in GPS receivers and other products (http://www.gnat.com/texts/news/news_rockwell.htm). > can be around for a long long time. I don't know if any > company is providing maintenance on JOVIAL compilers today, > but it would not surprise me to find out that they were > (Averstar would be the most likely candidate if anyone > still is doing JOVIAL support). > Software Engineering Associates still supports JOVIAL. See http://www.seadeo.com/ Britt Snodgrass