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From: rwnoel@tiac.net (Bob Noel)
Subject: Re: Gov't, non-DoD use of Ada
Date: 1996/09/10
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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.

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Bob Noel
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