From: ender@aros.net (Ender)
Subject: Re: Ada Success Story II
Date: 1997/03/05
Date: 1997-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5fijeg$ko4$1@news.aros.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3315C9E8.72D8@lmtas.lmco.com
In article <3315C9E8.72D8@lmtas.lmco.com>,
Ken Garlington <GarlingtonKE@lmtas.lmco.com> writes:
> rlove@raptor.neosoft.com (Robert B. Love) wrote:
>
> << With people so quick to blame Ada for the loss of Ariane I'd
> like to point out that Saturday's Titan 4B flew with a new
> flight computer programmed in Ada. While I'm sketchy on details
> they used a 1750 computer on a 1553 bus. An old combination
> of hardware but new for the Titan family.
>
> Anybody from LockMart care to comment? >>
>
Well, I'm not commenting for LockMart (great name though :-) I do Ada for
another LM division, but my system is quite land-based. Though it might be
preaching to the choir here, I really have to point out that the Ariane
failure was in no way related to Ada (or any language) but rather a PROCESS
failure. Nobody documented the "shortcut" taken (no exception handler), so
nobody knew it wouldn't work in other flight regimes, so nobody tested it,
so the rocket blew up. Kind of a graphic demonstration of the "hidden"
costs of software engineering shortcuts, eh?
Just my $0.0122 ($@&!^@ withholding taxes)
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Chris Curtis UNIX is user-friendly; it's just
ender@aros.net selective about who its friends are
Team Ada http://www.aros.net/~ender/
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-27 0:00 Ada Success Story II Ken Garlington
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-28 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Ender [this message]
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1997-03-02 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-03-05 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Rob Wells
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-09 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1997-03-10 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1997-03-11 0:00 `
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