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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:27:40 +0100
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On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:08:06 -0400, Stephen Leake
<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:

>"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
>
>> Le Tue, 25 May 2010 04:02:20 +0200, Stephen Leake
>> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> a �crit:
>
>> What is CMM ?
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model
>
>>> Commercial airline software is more reliable than the rest of the plane.
>> I encounter difficulties interpreting this one : do you mean
>> commercial applications or an airline company are typically more
>> reliable than the  one its planes ?
>
>I mean the software in embedded computers on an airplane is more
>reliable than the mechanical components in the airplane.

Some of the embedded computers on an airplane...

My wife just returned from the States. She managed to crash one of the
in-flight video games, which rebooted her LCD/TV/on-demand-video
terminal. She gleefully noted a picture of a penguin scrolling past in
the kernel boot messages... (and some announcements to the effect that
"this module will not work with this kernel")

Perhaps Ada ought to be more widely used...

- Brian