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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f948976d12c7ee33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-20 07:44:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: mbrennek@umr.edu (Matt Brenneke) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boeing and Dreamliner Date: 20 Jun 2003 07:44:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <20030619221951073-0500@library.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.76.96.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1056120277 2071 127.0.0.1 (20 Jun 2003 14:44:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jun 2003 14:44:37 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39492 Date: 2003-06-20T14:44:37+00:00 List-Id: Robert Love wrote in message news:<20030619221951073-0500@library.airnews.net>... > Now that Boeing has announced the 7E7 I'll be curious to see how much > they Ada they use. I'm sure that the "internet aboard" will all be COTS. > And I'm sure a lot will be common with their earlier aircraft but if > they have to create new flight control systems, will they still choose > Ada? It would be the rational decision but I see the C++ steam roller > just bulldozing everything. I'm an intern at Boeing St. Louis this summer, and from what the head of the software dept. told me, there is the big "C++ steam roller" coming along through many projects. There is still a lot of Ada left in Weapons and other things though. ex. For my assignment this summer I had to learn Ada to write a simulation, which reading months of this newsgroup through google helped me do :-)