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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Boeing 787 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:19:23 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5561d8a9-ffb0-4d3b-bbad-769229c3035e@c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: <56eb5a1a-4fb7-48ef-9ab0-c096abd73346@k2g2000pro.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.66.190.223 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1265257163 16634 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2010 04:19:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:19:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c29g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.66.190.223; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8871 Date: 2010-02-03T20:19:23-08:00 List-Id: On 4 f=E9v, 05:09, 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? =93 it's an old language =94 what about C and C++ ? =93 he says uses C and C++ =94