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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
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In article <01HW.B6817C6D0007BC9B078EC71C@news.pacbell.net>,
  David Kristola <David95037@See-My.Sig> wrote:
> There are fully functioning satellites in orbit around the
> Earth right  now with flight software written in JOVIAL.
> They should be operational  for many years to come.  And
> while they are, their flight software will  be maintained
> here on the ground by JOVIAL (and hopefully jovial)
> software engineers.


Just to be clear, I was not saying that I thought JOVIAL had
disappeared completely. I am quite aware of a number of active
projects using the language (the fact that N. Brunot has not
heard of a language does not mean it does not exist :-)

I chose it as an example of a language less used than Ada,
and I don't think even the most ardent jovial JOVIAL programmer
would disagree.

And by the way, it is quite an interesting language, and for
the time it was invented, quite innovative. There was a reason
that it became quite widely used :-)


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