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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:43:26 +0100
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anon@att.net writes:

> In <m2bpapyatv.fsf@pushface.org>, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
>>anon@att.net writes:
>>
>>> In <4205a7a1-e193-4057-b19c-7ae4a3122a1b@32g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com> writes:
>>
>>>>And what makes you think that the missile launch computer won't use IP
>>>>to talk to the target tracking sensor computers?
>>>
>>> The internet contains a swamp of hackers both domestic and foreign
>>> that would love to get it hands on a missle.  You ever heard of
>>> terrorist. So, to control a missle on the internet is treason type of
>>> programming.
>>
>>I said "IP" which means "Internet Protocol". Never for one moment did I
>>suggest that such a system would be connected to the Internet.
>>
>>If two computers need to communicate and IP over Ethernet is suitable
>>(and that includes an awful lot of military systems) we would be wasting
>>the taxpayers' money and our own limited resources to roll our own comms
>>stack when we can get one off the shelf.
>
> I knew what you meant by "IP". But:
>
>     1. Once a missle is launched the any wired "IP" is no long a valid 
>        port.

I should have also pointed out that I was talking about the missile
launch computer talking to the target tracking computer, *not* about
missile control computer to missile. And indeed in the system I'm
working on IP *is* the comms stack for this purpose.