From: "jhc0033@gmail.com" <jhc0033@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:02:35 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-07-15T23:02:35-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Jul 14, 4:49 am, Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> contrary to popular expectations space probes are very
> conservative in their use of technolgy.
I disagree. Actually, the space industry will try anything and stick
with it until stuff explodes (Ariane rocket) or crashes into the wrong
celestial body because of faulty software. They did use Ada widely
before, and they even programmed some of their probes in Lisp. Seems
like C is the new fad there. Wait until they get bitten by macros and
dangling pointers.
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2008-07-14 11:18 computer language used to program Mars Lander jhc0033
2008-07-14 11:21 ` jacob navia
2008-07-14 21:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-14 11:49 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-15 7:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-16 6:02 ` jhc0033 [this message]
2008-07-16 21:57 ` Brian
2008-07-23 14:43 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-23 22:53 ` Larry Elmore
2008-07-24 6:59 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 7:18 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:14 ` Grant Rettke
2008-07-24 7:39 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 7:51 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 9:40 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 20:39 ` Brian
2008-07-25 6:10 ` jhc0033
2008-07-25 20:29 ` Brian
2008-07-26 3:03 ` jhc0033
2008-07-26 6:09 ` Brian
2008-07-24 8:40 ` pls.mrjm
2008-07-24 9:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-24 11:35 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-24 12:15 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:36 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-25 21:19 ` j.oke
2008-07-25 22:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-07-25 23:30 ` Joost Kremers
2008-07-26 12:41 ` j.oke
2008-07-26 12:51 ` j.oke
2008-07-17 21:56 ` Paul Hsieh
2008-07-17 22:30 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-17 23:03 ` Default User
2008-07-18 0:03 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 0:02 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 0:08 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 18:02 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-07-18 18:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-07-18 18:37 ` Pascal Obry
2008-07-18 19:45 ` Gautier
2008-07-18 20:26 ` jacob navia
2008-07-18 21:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-18 21:14 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 20:45 ` Richard Tobin
2008-07-22 8:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 10:45 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-22 10:50 ` Richard
2008-07-22 11:20 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 21:11 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-23 8:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-23 13:00 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-26 11:13 ` Antoninus Twink
2008-07-22 12:05 ` Chris Dollin
2008-07-22 13:39 ` Walter Banks
2008-07-14 15:31 ` george.priv
2008-07-14 15:38 ` Keith Thompson
2008-07-14 21:29 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-15 12:04 ` Stephen Leake
2008-07-15 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-15 23:35 ` Phaedrus
2008-07-16 5:21 ` christoph.grein
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