Re: Curiosity rover on Mars

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <ggsub@pragmada.co.cc> writes:

> On Wednesday, August 8, 2012 7:41:05 AM UTC-7, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>> The Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars earlier this week. 
>> Congratulations to NASA and to all those who worked on the daring and 
>> controversial new landing system---which apparently worked perfectly. I 
>> saw a NASA video that mentioned that there was 500,000 lines of code in 
>> the EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing) system. Does anyone happen to know 
>> if there is any Ada on board that spacecraft?
>
> According to
>
> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-is-the-mars-curiosity-rovers-software-built-in
>
> it's in C, possibly "mostly auto-generated".

Which means it's not in C, it's in some graphical language.

If you use a compilation system for Ada that happens to use C as an
intermediate language, would you say your application is "written in C,
mostly auto-generated"?

Why is a graphical language that uses C as an intermediate any
different?

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