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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Protest against the war on Iraq
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:50:47 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-03-21T11:50:47+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnb7lv4d.53q.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dstanbro-C45F58.22293721032003@mec2.bigpond.net.au

Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> Does anyone know if the munitions in Iraq are coded in Ada, or are
> they mainly C++, or even PL/1? :-)

I guess the smart bombs[*] are coded in Ada and the dumb bombs in C++.
Dirty bombs are coded in C. ;-) The Patriot missiles seem to have
some problems shooting down the Iraq missiles.

Preben



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-21  9:36 Protest against the war on Iraq Karel Miklav
2003-03-21 10:05 ` Preben Randhol
2003-03-21 11:29   ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-03-21 11:50     ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2003-03-21 14:56       ` Hyman Rosen
2003-03-24 23:10         ` Karen
2003-03-25  0:23       ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-25 18:43         ` Nick Roberts
2003-03-25 21:24           ` Faust
2003-03-25 23:00           ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-27  9:17         ` Preben Randhol
2003-03-21 15:18     ` Frank J. Lhota
2003-03-21 11:30 ` Faust
2003-03-25 22:41   ` Bill Schreckenstein
2003-03-25 23:02     ` John R. Strohm
2003-03-26  3:27     ` Ada software helps the war " Faust
2003-03-26  4:42       ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-03-26  4:49         ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-03-26  8:30       ` Martin Dowie
2003-03-26 10:03         ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-03-21 12:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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