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-Thread: 103376,7bc6f40429287ff6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Article: Ada For Robotics Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.70.240.233 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1206750666 9205 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2008 00:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.70.240.233; posting-account=fZH-XgkAAADP-Rf8L8ppyFIdKUfh90k4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20625 Date: 2008-03-28T17:31:06-07:00 List-Id: I was not the least surprised by the article. Many years ago I lead a 3-person software development team on a robotics project. We were developing robotic controls for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Our team used Ada. We developed a full robotic control application, developing about 200,000 lines of code, using the MIL-STD 498 process, in 18 months. I was my company's representative on the Army Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems Working Group. All the other attendees to this working group had developed robotic applications using C++. While the three of us were developing the Ada application the other teams (all of which were much larger than ours) managed to implement some relatively minor enhancements. One of the unique features of our system was that we were the first team to develop a robotic control system in compliance with the Army Joint Architecture. Jim Rogers