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Subject: Re: Boeing 737 and 737 MAX software
From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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> I know nothing about the software.

Me neither, so we are in a perfect condition to discuss it!

> But I don't think it is written in Ada. If it was, programmers must have chosen a wrong subtype.
> 
> In the crashed Ethiopian 302 aircraft, ~30 seconds before impact, the nose points 40 deg. toward ground, and the AoA indicates 75 deg. As 40 + 75 = 115 > 90 deg., this would imply negative airspeed.

So how would Ada help in this situation?
What if the above addition is never performed? Because, you know, the result of this addition indicates a flight parameter that either nobody cares about or that is already obtained by other (presumably more reliable) means?

In which case Ada would be a perfectly valid language there.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com