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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: PR while it's hot: Rosetta/Philae is in Ada Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:43:50 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2095c6b0f16abb55c79cf25b6546c75f"; logging-data="9899"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZXZpGQcJ6r5K8DSMlFF6l" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:CkM4eGTivtTdG1oVGDgXeAlNJU4= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23408 Date: 2014-11-16T09:43:50+01:00 List-Id: Le 14/11/2014 21:45, Michael B. a écrit : > But this article mentions FORTH (on the second page)? > http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2003ESASP.532E..72B > Apparently, it's just for Philae's control, with a special FORTH processor. Presumably, they wanted an interpreted language for that part in order to dynamically change it? The paper doesn't say much. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr