From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works)
Date: 1996/06/08
Date: 1996-06-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.834287759@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4pd7qc$kp2@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com
Eugene says
"vehicles have problems. The DC-X flight control software is in Ada and
is all computer generated. You would not want to maintain this code by
hand."
Sounds bogus, ultimately the code is maintained by humans, we do not yet
have robots that can write and maintain code. Sure the code may be in
some other language than Ada and then generate Ada (if the Ada is not
maintained, but is just used as an intermediate language, it is
essentially irrelevant that it is Ada). So the question is: what
language WAS the software written in? And what is the argument that
this code is easier to maintain than properly written Ada?
I am always running into the vague notion that someone program generators
and CASE tools eliminate programming completely. All too often what is
really happening is that the code is being written in some poorly designed
and poorly defined and poorly maintained language.
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-06 0:00 ARIANE-5 Failure John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Tronche Ch. le pitre
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Bert Peers
1996-06-07 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Eugene W.P. Bingue
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-09 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Samuel Mize
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Dale Stanbrough
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` David Zink
1996-06-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-18 0:00 ` 4GL code in a deliverable (was: ARIANE-5 Failure) Arthur Evans Jr
1996-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-10 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works) Ken Garlington
1996-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-19 0:00 ` 4THGL code Warren Taylor
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Automatic code generation (was ARIANE-5 Failure (DC-X works)) Steve Vestal
1996-06-07 0:00 ` ARIANE-5 Failure Ken Garlington
1996-06-07 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-08 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Jim Kingdon
1996-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Dewi Daniels
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-13 0:00 ` Jan Kok
1996-06-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
1996-06-10 0:00 ` William Clodius
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