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: 103376,22c9fbc37d426c0c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-04 07:04:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: F22 Raptor in slashdot.org Date: 4 Aug 2003 07:04:46 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3F2E566A.1A7F@mail.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.152.82.158 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1060005886 15301 127.0.0.1 (4 Aug 2003 14:04:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Aug 2003 14:04:46 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41167 Date: 2003-08-04T14:04:46+00:00 List-Id: Dmytry Lavrov wrote: > > If I remember, the new code is in C++ > >Really? I'm understanding right? It's not about Novalogic game F22 >raptor? It's F22 raptor military airplane? Military avionics in C++? > >Heh,our MIGS will not shot it : it will fall due to bad pointer >operation or memory leak, without any shot ;-). You don't understand the stategical gain: a potential enemy certainly will copy the technology, believing that the world leader's technology must be superior. But that potential enemy will not allocate such huge resources for reviewing, verification and testing as the leader will do. Therefore the enemy's military airplanes will have more bugs in their avionics and thus will be inferior - just what is needed. Remember, that military airplane need not be best possible - it is enough for it to be significantly better than enemy's airplane. It is the difference that matters there, so you should try to maximize it. -;) , if you wish. > Bad side of things that next step is nuclear war caused by memory leak in C++. > "Please reboot your civilisation ..." .Really. Well, memory leaks and bad pointers in the brains of some people still are much more significant dangers for civilization than any C++ (and even Java -;) software. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia