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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,499dc364d2fd8ade X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!l24g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Boeing 787 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:24:02 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4bae6ac8-2a12-4ffc-a562-38056a835b4b@l24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <56eb5a1a-4fb7-48ef-9ab0-c096abd73346@k2g2000pro.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.172.187.95 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1265315043 3887 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2010 20:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 20:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l24g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.172.187.95; posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US) AppleWebKit/528.16+(KHTML, like Gecko, Safari/528.16) OmniWeb/v622.8.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8898 Date: 2010-02-04T12:24:02-08:00 List-Id: On Feb 4, 3:32=A0am, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > On Feb 4, 5:09=A0am, Jerry 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