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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Curiosity rover on Mars
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:03:04 -0500
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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