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From: Peter Chapin <peter@pchapin.org>
Subject: Re: is Ada used in James Webb Space Telescope software?
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:30:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ibCdne5HxswSKVD8nZ2dnUU7-f_NnZ2d@giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sq9q3h$102l$1@gioia.aioe.org>

On 12/26/21 8:18 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:

> Any one knows if Ada is used in James Webb Space Telescope software.

It is likely they used C. Specifically, C99. I say this because in my 
dealings with NASA (related to my work with CubeSats), the people I've 
talked with made it clear that NASA is now a C shop. Both my colleague 
and I have extolled the virtues of Ada and SPARK to NASA engineers, but 
we get the usual reaction: to much investment in C to take any other 
option seriously... except maybe C++ (JPL, at least, does some work with 
C++ so that might also be on the JWST).

Peter


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-30 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-26 13:18 is Ada used in James Webb Space Telescope software? Nasser M. Abbasi
2021-12-26 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-12-26 19:22   ` Paul Rubin
2021-12-26 23:57     ` John McCabe
2021-12-27  0:37       ` Paul Rubin
2021-12-27  7:44         ` Niklas Holsti
2021-12-28 10:24         ` John McCabe
2021-12-28 10:59           ` Niklas Holsti
2021-12-31 10:26             ` John McCabe
2021-12-31 21:18               ` [OT] ESA project memories (was Re: is Ada used in James Webb Space Telescope software?) Niklas Holsti
2022-01-05 16:43                 ` John McCabe
2022-04-23  9:17         ` is Ada used in James Webb Space Telescope software? 姚飞
2021-12-30 13:30 ` Peter Chapin [this message]
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