From: rwnoel@tiac.net (Bob Noel)
Subject: Re: Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada
Date: 1996/09/10
Date: 1996-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rwnoel-1009961854130001@rwnoel.tiac.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.96Sep10141151@alexandria
In article <JSA.96Sep10141151@alexandria>, jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) wrote:
> > Not at all. They are buying full-custom, and can have it in any language
> > they want. And, the main language of the ATC world is C, not Ada, so it
> > would be hard to criticise their choice of C. There is probably ten times
> > as much C as Ada used in ATC applications. It matters not at all that
> > Thompson/CSF has been using and touting Ada.
>
> In US FAA ATC? Or world wide ATC? The evidence so far indicated
> certainly seems to point that the use of just "ATC" here, is a very
> parochial view. Anyone really know?
At least some of the systems the FAA is buying are not "full-custom"
ATC. STARS is modified COTS. The STARS specification requires
that the application software be written in FIPS-compliant Ada or C.
--
Bob Noel
why do people over load their
webpages with unnecessary gifs?
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-24 0:00 Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Robert B. Love
1996-08-26 0:00 ` John Woodruff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Chris Brand
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Alex P. Madarasz, Jr.
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Bob Noel [this message]
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada (C-based COTS no excuse...) David Emery
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada Sandy McPherson
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