Re: Ada in Boeing 787

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Jerry wrote:
> I have an engineer friend who is a long-time employee of Honeywell
> Flight Systems who claims that the Boeing 787 does not use Ada ("It's
> an old language"). My friend, as i recall, manages a project involving
> the airplane's entertainment system which he says uses C and C++ and
> not Ada. I don't doubt that his subsystem uses C but a bit of web
> research seems to indicate that the flight systems use Ada. Who is
> right--the web or my friend who works on the airplane?

"It's an old language" is an odd reason not to use a language from someone who 
uses C (much older than Ada) and C++ (about the same age as Ada).

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
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