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,a00006d3c4735d70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-28 20:03:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!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: Certified C compilers for safety-critical embedded systems Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:14:52 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: 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 1072670570 63486 80.67.180.195 (29 Dec 2003 04:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:02:50 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from "Robert I. Eachus" at Sun, 28 Dec 2003 01:08:45 -0500 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:3912 Date: 2003-12-29T07:14:52+03:00 Robert I. Eachus wrote: > Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: > > I think that the following posting (of Robert I. Eachus) should be placed in > > appropriate section of Ada-promoting websites, at least unofficial ones, such > > as AdaPower and AdaWorld - because it is the best explanation of the Ada > > adavantages at essentially popular level I ever seen. > >... > >I'm glad you like it, but as you said, it needs some work. I guess that these your words probably mean that it will never happen. It is a pity. > What I > realized I left out after I posted it was an explanation of the "Cobra > Dance" crashes of F-104s. This additional example may be good here in c.l.a. but it is certainly excessive for a manager/executive kind - it makes the thing heavier and it demands bigger intellectual effort for understanding, which is certainly a drawback... and the conclusions there are somehow vague or seems vague. By the way, I remember that F-104 Starfighter was very deadly airplane in Germany. Germany bought many F-104 and plenty of them crashed (you know, Soviet newspapers were greatly delighted with that, and picked every case eagerly) - much more (at least in proportion) than in USA. I always thought that there should be some cultural difference (between US pilots and German pilots), which caused that effect. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia