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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Thread: 1014db,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid1014db,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: jacob navia Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:21:42 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: jacob@nospam.org NNTP-Posting-Host: Yx4h1yhg/MyEnW93JlUV0g.user.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1147 comp.lang.c:9425 Date: 2008-07-14T13:21:42+02:00 List-Id: jhc0033@gmail.com wrote: > Interesting article I came across on Slashdot: > > http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/08/07/10/213211.shtml > > They are using C at JPL to program Mars Lander and just about > everything now! Not Ada. Anyone got an explanation? I wonder also, do > they really mean C++ when they say C. In my experience, this is a > frequent, although disagreeable usage. They do not use even memory allocation. They use a subset of C I am sure they do not use C++! -- jacob navia jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr logiciels/informatique http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32