Re: Ada in Boeing 787

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Feb 4, 3:32 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 5:09 am, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Ada is in the Common Core system:
>
> http://www.adacore.com/2004/04/20/wind-river-teams-with-adacore-on-pl...
>
> Ada is in the air conditioning:
>
> http://www.adacore.com/2006/05/01/hamilton-sundstrand-selects-gnat-pr...
>
> Friends don't let friends program in C++.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Thanks, Ludovic. This was the sort of thing that I was looking for.

I shouldn't have mentioned the "It's an old language" thing since that
is a distraction from what I was wanting to know.

Jerry