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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b4c15e38968a00a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-23 10:26:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Any ADA NASA Developer's out there? Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:23:39 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <34defe4d.0401222056.59530091@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1074882279 46553 80.67.180.195 (23 Jan 2004 18:24:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:24:39 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <34defe4d.0401222056.59530091@posting.google.com>; from John Woodruff at 22 Jan 2004 20:56:43 -0800 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4737 Date: 2004-01-23T21:23:39+03:00 John Woodruff wrote: > In case your academic interest extends past NASA to other > high-technology applications of Ada, you might look at the National > Ignition Facility laser, which is controlled by a distributed software > system written using Ada. > > NIF is the world's most powerful laser, even though only 2% of the > beams are complete. Consider www.llnl.gov/nif/nif.html There are quite interesting articles indeed. I have read some of them and can testify that the system described there looks really complex and challenging, and what is significant, the nature and necessity of that complexity is far more clear in the case of NIF then in most cases related to NASA. And this is also true for relevance of serious software tools (such as Ada language). Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia