Re: is Ada used in James Webb Space Telescope software?

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 2021-12-28 12:24, John McCabe wrote:
> On Monday, 27 December 2021 at 00:37:03 UTC, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> John McCabe <jo...@mccabe.org.uk> writes:
> 
>>> as it looked like we (Matra Marconi Space) might be forced to use
>>> the RTX2010 as it was one of very few space qualified processors
>>> with hardware floating point support. In the end we used the
>>> MA31750, with Ada, instead.

    [snip]

> The Ada compiler we used was the same as Nikolas; TLD.

    [snip]

> Although Nikolas mentions Matra Marconi Space mandating TLD, that
> would've come down from Dornier who'd apparently done a deal with
> TLD.

Yes, a considerable part of our requirements came from Dornier via Matra
Marconi Space (France). We sometimes had fun trying to understand how
the French had interpreted requirements written in English by the
Germans. The two other languages had left their imprints on the
"English" wording :-)