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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP 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: 2001-01-15 12:46:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A635D76.C5A6944D@west.raytheon.com> From: Jerry Petrey <"jdpetrey"@west.raytheon.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD CSC;Raytheon (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? 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> <3A6357CF.B80C3666@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:28:38 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.131.12 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 979590600 147.24.131.12 (Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:30:00 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:30:00 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4024 Date: 2001-01-15T13:28:38-07:00 List-Id: Lao Xiao Hai wrote: > > n_brunot@my-deja.com wrote: > > > I read a couple a times the word 'jovial' and thought it was a joke :-) > > I guess you could be ready to invent your own language, used only by > > you, to make proof that there are languages less popular than Ada ... > > Easy way to prove almost any absurd assertion :-) > > Jovial or JOVIAL. Jules Own Version of International Algorithmic Language. > > I had several opportunities to sit at the feet of Jules Schwartz, the > principal designer > of this language. It added to Algol many features that made Algol better > suited > to actual programming problems, particularly embedded systems problems. > > There is currently an active JOVIAL Users Group. I believe they are based > at > Wright-Patterson AFB. As with many language advocates, dedicated JOVIAL > enthusiasts continue to believe their language is still the best option for > most of > the problems it was designed to solve. A great many of our USAF software > systems are operated by JOVIAL. > > We have a client who is converting a lot of JOVIAL code to Ada 95 for an > important > military system. I am told that Ratheon is using JOVIAL for the current > upgrade of > the Patriot. The next Patriot upgrade was planning to use Ada, but there > are apparently > some fools at Raytheon who are advocating C++. With luck, Ada will prevail. > ^ > | | Unfortunately, we have a number of those 'fools' here but ,thank goodness, quite a few of our missile systems are done in Ada. Of course when these same people work on the Ada projects, their Ada code looks a lot like C :-) Jerry -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Jerry Petrey -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation, Guidance, & Control -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply -----------------------------------------------------------------------------