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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of
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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:14:13 +0100
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I don't know. But I do know that MISRA (UK Motor Industry S/W
Reliability Association) publish guidelines that indicate that
Ada should be considered in preference to using C for safety
critical systems. The report defines MISRA-C, a "safe" subset
of C.

Mike Smith <smithmc@michaelsmith.NOSPAMorg> wrote in message
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[snip]

> Define "major".  Is the software for automotive engine computers written
in
> Ada?  The embedded world is one of the most "major" categories of software
> development, and I'd bet that a lot of that is in fact written in
assembly.
>
> --
> Mike Smith