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: If not Ada, what else... Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:55:47 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <40184feb-4053-4ac3-8eaa-c3bd9cd8a77c@googlegroups.com> <10272577-945f-4682-85bc-8ad47f3653ae@googlegroups.com> <4ae21218-2148-434b-8acc-162f1cce594f@googlegroups.com> <874ml0yv84.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <87wpxvyhle.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <87egk2ybvq.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:54:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="3574"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+f5XbDEt0l776xBQ2+842v" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:61hEzuxrg8y0dYCeNG/EsKUFznQ= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26930 Date: 2015-07-21T14:55:47+02:00 List-Id: Le 21/07/2015 14:47, Dennis Lee Bieber a écrit : >> Airbus D&S (previously EADS) announced during the Ada-Europe conference >> >in Madrid that the software for the Ariane 6 rocket would be developped >> >in Ada 2012, with intensive use of contracts. > Ah... wanting to avoid a repeat of the Ariane-5 fiasco? Fiasco? Ariane-5 has the highest rate of succesful flights of all rockets. Presumably you meant Ariane 501? Even though, 1) few (if any) rockets had a fully succesful maiden flight, and 2) the problem was fully a management issue, with a decision to skip appropriate testing due to political pressure. No language can help... -- 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