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-Thread: 103376,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Thread: 1014db,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1014db,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Default User" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: 17 Jul 2008 23:03:01 GMT Message-ID: <6ea1d5F65269U1@mid.individual.net> References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <887fc0a7-0a5a-4d2e-a9ea-eb9e32d6a818@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <13a2f4f0-6ec1-4570-b6bf-1621cfb32db2@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: individual.net 11EO9RJmfvmZSH+T/o3MkgsNmWfHjLdD1h5GagKy9lQYHJhcpr Cancel-Lock: sha1:O6FOhczANQg58q9cPZ7DZhEzd1M= User-Agent: XanaNews/1.17.5.9 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6930 comp.lang.c:70091 Date: 2008-07-17T23:03:01+00:00 List-Id: Chris Thomasson wrote: > "Paul Hsieh" wrote in message > news:13a2f4f0-6ec1-4570-b6bf-1621cfb32db2@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com. > > Indeed. Ada is used by the military, because they have much more > > sophisticated hardware in tanks and fighter jets. > > Is this a trolling attempt? Anyway, the military uses C++ for all > critical system software in state-of-the-art fighter-bombers because > they have much more sophisticated hardware: We did quite a bit of code for avionics flight systems for military aircraft in C++. It ran on top of an RTOS and there were certain restrictions in the programming. Dynamic memory was only allocated at startup, for instance. Brian