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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.