Re: Ada in Boeing 787

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Jerry schrieb:
> I have an engineer friend who is a long-time employee of Honeywell
> Flight Systems who claims that the Boeing 787 does not use Ada ("It's
> an old language"). My friend, as i recall, manages a project involving
> the airplane's entertainment system which he says uses C and C++ and
> not Ada. I don't doubt that his subsystem uses C but a bit of web
> research seems to indicate that the flight systems use Ada. Who is
> right--the web or my friend who works on the airplane?

Is there any new language that is largely being used for
technical applications?

Ichbiah said, in 1984, that we would be using different
programming 30 years from then. Do we? I mean, do we
actually use them in embedded systems? Does Java count
as new?