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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: PR while it's hot: Rosetta/Philae is in Ada
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:50:59 -0600
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"J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

> Le 14/11/2014 21:45, Michael B. a écrit :
>> But this article mentions FORTH (on the second page)?
>> http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2003ESASP.532E..72B
>> 
> Apparently, it's just for Philae's control, with a special FORTH
> processor. Presumably, they wanted an interpreted language for that part
> in order to dynamically change it? The paper doesn't say much.

In my experience at NASA, processors for small instruments/spacecraft
are chosen by the hardware team, who give much more consideration to
power and weight concerns than to software ("anything can be fixed in
software, right?").

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-- Stephe