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-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!01cc3b7c!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Richard Riehle" From: "Richard Riehle" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <10hrfkt9opb2aa@corp.supernews.com> Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:02:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.81.216.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1092618147 66.81.216.201 (Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:02:27 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:02:27 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2745 Date: 2004-08-16T01:02:27+00:00 List-Id: "Nick Roberts" wrote in message news:opscslubwup4pfvb@bram-2... > > From the F/A-22 web site: > > The software that provides the avionics system's full > functionality is composed of approximately 1.7 million lines of > code. Ninety percent of the software is written in Ada, the > Department of Defense's common computer language. Exceptions to > the Ada requirement are granted only for special processing or > maintenance requirements. > Too bad this kind of intelligent decision-making could not have been applied to the Joint Strike Fighter. Instead, some idiot decided to do all the software for JSF in C++. Richard Riehle