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: 103376,593bd03cd5bc0b74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newshub.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!nntp.upenn.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!newsserver.cilea.it!not-for-mail From: Colin Paul Gloster Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Medical instruments do use Ada Date: 2 May 2007 09:23:30 GMT Organization: CILEA Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: docenti.ing.unipi.it X-Trace: newsserver.cilea.it 1178097810 28914 131.114.28.20 (2 May 2007 09:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cilea.it NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 May 2007 09:23:30 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15458 Date: 2007-05-02T09:23:30+00:00 List-Id: In news:RgXWh.860$im2.282@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net timestamped Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:14:37 -0800, Richard Riehle posted: "[..] I used to know a guy who had a small company specializing in the creation of software for medical instruments on microcontrollers. For the most part these were computers such as the I-8051, eight bit micros that had very little primary memory, and did a small number of functions. In this environment, Ada may not be the best alternative. [..] [..] There was a correspondent in this forum about ten years ago who was exploring the potential for Ada in those kinds of systems. I don't think he got very far. Also, there are no compilers in place to support the kinds of processors used in microcontroller medical systems." It is not Ada, but... WWW.DesignTools.co.NZ/mod51.htm Possibly not Ada, but... in news:eup71u$bd5$1@newsserver.cilea.it C. P. G. wrote: "[..] I do not know whether this is really true, but in the so-called Republic of Ireland I shockingly heard of one deployed (and not recalled) life-critical embedded medical software product which is very crash prone, but which is designed to have a very quick reboot time (far less than one second) such that it is expected that crashing does not make the product unsafe. The person who claimed this said that for his own work (business-critical but not life-critical and not medical), he similarly does not bother to design his software so well that it will not crash frequently, and that he tries to have data structures in such a way that they are resilient to corruption from crashes."