From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:51:28 +0200
Date: 2008-07-18T20:51:28+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vb923zdgfhpo.32n8sqmcsqj6.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.WNT.4.64.0807181902001.964@teor2
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:02:58 +0100, Colin Paul Gloster wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Paul Hsieh wrote:
>
>|The small memory footprint and VxWorks environment probably makes C a
>|very attractive language for the NASA guys. If they used Ada, they
>|would be slower, have much larger memory requirements and have a very
>|hard time debugging problems remotely.
>
> How is C on VxWorks faster than Ada?
As a part of religious experience, I guess...
Actually some VxWorks guys, who are aware of Ada, tried to convince us that
our project on VxWorks should use C, rather than Ada, because "C is
faster."
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2008-07-14 11:18 computer language used to program Mars Lander jhc0033
2008-07-14 11:21 ` jacob navia
2008-07-14 21:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-14 11:49 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-15 7:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-16 6:02 ` jhc0033
2008-07-16 21:57 ` Brian
2008-07-23 14:43 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-23 22:53 ` Larry Elmore
2008-07-24 6:59 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 7:18 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:14 ` Grant Rettke
2008-07-24 7:39 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 7:51 ` jhc0033
2008-07-24 9:40 ` John Thingstad
2008-07-24 20:39 ` Brian
2008-07-25 6:10 ` jhc0033
2008-07-25 20:29 ` Brian
2008-07-26 3:03 ` jhc0033
2008-07-26 6:09 ` Brian
2008-07-24 8:40 ` pls.mrjm
2008-07-24 9:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-07-24 11:35 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-24 12:15 ` Stefan Scholl
2008-07-24 12:36 ` Michael Oswald
2008-07-25 21:19 ` j.oke
2008-07-25 22:34 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-07-25 23:30 ` Joost Kremers
2008-07-26 12:41 ` j.oke
2008-07-26 12:51 ` j.oke
2008-07-17 21:56 ` Paul Hsieh
2008-07-17 22:30 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-17 23:03 ` Default User
2008-07-18 0:03 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 0:02 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 0:08 ` Chris Thomasson
2008-07-18 18:02 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-07-18 18:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-07-18 18:37 ` Pascal Obry
2008-07-18 19:45 ` Gautier
2008-07-18 20:26 ` jacob navia
2008-07-18 21:01 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-18 21:14 ` Gary Scott
2008-07-18 20:45 ` Richard Tobin
2008-07-22 8:39 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 10:45 ` Nick Keighley
2008-07-22 10:50 ` Richard
2008-07-22 11:20 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-22 21:11 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-23 8:40 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-07-23 13:00 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-26 11:13 ` Antoninus Twink
2008-07-22 12:05 ` Chris Dollin
2008-07-22 13:39 ` Walter Banks
2008-07-14 15:31 ` george.priv
2008-07-14 15:38 ` Keith Thompson
2008-07-14 21:29 ` CBFalconer
2008-07-15 12:04 ` Stephen Leake
2008-07-15 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-07-15 23:35 ` Phaedrus
2008-07-16 5:21 ` christoph.grein
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