From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Subject: Re: Curiosity rover on Mars
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:03:04 -0500
Date: 2012-08-10T08:03:04-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k030q9$uoe$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nYadncRnja0c57_N4p2dnAA@giganews.com
On 8/8/2012 9:41 AM, Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>I
> saw a NASA video that mentioned that there was 500,000 lines of code in
> the EDL (Entry, Descent, and Landing) system. Does anyone happen to know
> if there is any Ada on board that spacecraft?
>
fyi:
according to this
http://thecodist.com/article/bad_software_worse_solutions_programming_will_always_be_hard
"The Mars Lander is millions of lines of C written for exactly one use"
--Nasser
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-08 14:41 Curiosity rover on Mars Peter C. Chapin
2012-08-08 18:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2012-08-09 5:23 ` Per Sandberg
2012-08-09 7:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-08-09 8:55 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-08-09 15:37 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-08-10 20:32 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-08-10 7:30 ` Charles H. Sampson
2012-08-30 11:27 ` Stephen Leake
2012-08-30 17:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-08-30 19:34 ` johnscpg
2012-08-10 13:03 ` Nasser M. Abbasi [this message]
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