Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]

[andreas@baloney.org (Harry Andreas)]

In article <85j53h$ic0@chronicle.concentric.net>, "David Tannen"
<tannen@jcdisciples.org> wrote:

> I have been involved in maintaining code (about 1msloc) that
> targeted three different processors and ran on three different
> hosts (9 combinations).  With all of that code we had about
> 90% of the code in common and 10% varied because of the
> platform or the target h/w.
> 
> Ada is a very portable language and the features it provides
> make it extremely portable.  If an application isn't portable
> that is fault of the developers and most importantly the
> managers and PMs for that project.

This has pretty much been our experience, too, and is what I was alluding
to in a prior message.
Ada can be written to be portable if care is taken to make it happen.
And on this program it was.

-- 
Harry Andreas
the engineering raconteur

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