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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bedb0d6478721e2d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-07 20:31:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: stupid question From: James Rogers References: Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 03:31:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.34.38 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1065583914 12.86.34.38 (Wed, 08 Oct 2003 03:31:54 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 03:31:54 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:431 Date: 2003-10-08T03:31:54+00:00 List-Id: info@irvinehosting.net (Shanon Fernald) wrote in news:d8f235a4.0310071912.563d16ea@posting.google.com: > What programming language do you think would be best to use if you > were building the software to manage a nuclear power plant and why? > Which would let you sleep best at night knowing you lived next door to > the plant? > Nuclear power plant software is extremely safety critical. There are a number of required processes for creating software for nuclear power plants. I would want a language that best supports safety critical software development processes for the parts that actually control the operation of the power plant. Almost anything can be used for the administrative tasks such as employee records and trivial financial tracking. For the truly safety critical parts I would choose Spark. Jim Rogers