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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada in Boeing 787
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:19:17 +0100
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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?

Digressing -- but in-flight entertainment systems are one of the buggiest 
pieces of code I have faced. After two flights waiting for the cabin crew to 
reset mine when I tried some obscure choices, I just stick to playing movies 
and hope for the best.