From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.posted.internetamerica!news.posted.internetamerica.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:15:28 -0500 From: rblove@airmail.net (R. B. Love) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Failure of the Schiaparelli lander: A software problem? References: <04236df5-938d-49df-a74e-01faac6f7a15@googlegroups.com> <87zill8fm7.fsf@airmail.net> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:16:25 -0500 Message-ID: <874m3rubxy.fsf@airmail.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2zjWUUeBlJb3TEjBna/JzsKTnDc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.194.42.58 X-Trace: sv3-DHq5L3PcwkBkwf3sw7VXFaYYio4ReOC31ZuJBLtqmgr2dwAEV98fyBXeiDuD1q27cWwph41TzBzU9y7!cG7we+u0fmedhJCzSahuE7Oio2b41XxqX2ftbwGltUYLa1MG8OkEsSbt8mDoWGU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@airmail.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@airmail.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1424 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:32215 Date: 2016-10-31T22:16:25-05:00 List-Id: OK, I didn't understand the use of "demonstrator". I hope it's not the situation that Europe lost two spacecraft using Ada. I work at NASA and see Ada fading in favor of C++. I will wait for the actual ESA report.