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Le Sat, 12 Apr 2014 06:58:29 +0200, Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com> a =
 =

=C3=A9crit:

>> BTW, once you have people exposed to type safe programming, then mayb=
e
>> you can introduce them to Ada for the large projects. One of the majo=
r
>> revelations for me over Heartbleed was seeing people discuss the need=

>> for a safer language and immediately jump to languages like Java.
>
> Hm, good point.
> Ada has some *REALLY* good features when it comes to  =

> programming-in-the-large -- the YF-22 integration is astounding:
> 12 major avionics subsystems, across 650 Ada modules containing millio=
ns  =

> of lines of code, coded in 8 geographically distinct locations, took  =

> *three days!*
>
> Source: http://archive.adaic.com/docs/present/engle/comments/tsld033.h=
tm

While Ada certainly played an important role in this success story,  =

another as much important role was certainly humans=E2=80=A6 how did the=
y  =

communicate between each others? I mean, what documentation techniques a=
nd  =

systems was used? Was the style guide(s) homogeneous or heterogeneous? D=
id  =

they used some kind of maps to handle the big lines before diving into t=
he  =

details?

I would enjoy a lot to know the answers to these questions.

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity