Re: Thought this was interesting

["Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com>]

"Darren New" <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Richard Riehle wrote:
> > The really interesting question about this article is,
> > "How much of the code is written in Ada, if any?"
>
> Last I heard, it was all FORTH. But then, last I heard, they were
still on
> core memory, too.

No, on-board shuttle flight software is mostly written in a very fine
language named HAL/S.  I wrote a few of the "HAL/S versus Ada" studies
for NASA (concerning the space station) in the early 80's.   Ada won,
but no matter who wrote them they always started with "Well, HAL could
do it, but..."

PS: Hands up if you have a copy of Mike Ryer's book.   Bonus points if
you know what HAL stands for. :-)

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