From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada
Date: 1996/09/10
Date: 1996-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Sep10141151@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4vnlgn$mko@uuneo.neosoft.com
In article <gwinn-0909962045450001@smc19.ed.ray.com> gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes:
> > 3. We may have been born on a weekend, but not last weekend.
> > If you limit development to C and C++, and you are the govt,
> > you will be sued.
>
> Not at all. They are buying full-custom, and can have it in any language
> they want. And, the main language of the ATC world is C, not Ada, so it
> would be hard to criticise their choice of C. There is probably ten times
> as much C as Ada used in ATC applications. It matters not at all that
> Thompson/CSF has been using and touting Ada.
In US FAA ATC? Or world wide ATC? The evidence so far indicated
certainly seems to point that the use of just "ATC" here, is a very
parochial view. Anyone really know?
/Jon
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-24 0:00 Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Robert B. Love
1996-08-26 0:00 ` John Woodruff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Chris Brand
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Bob Noel
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada (C-based COTS no excuse...) David Emery
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Sandy McPherson
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