From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <887fc0a7-0a5a-4d2e-a9ea-eb9e32d6a818@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <13a2f4f0-6ec1-4570-b6bf-1621cfb32db2@a2g2000prm.googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:51:28 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jul 2008 20:51:28 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 2e7cf667.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=1;9K3fQ=UC4i6K;>iZ]763ic==]BZ:af>4Fo<]lROoR1<`=YMgDjhg2Nni?\9nnmj0[6LHn;2LCV>[ 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." -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de