Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request

["Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:56:22 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber  
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:26:33 -0500, "j" <toddbiz@highstream.net>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
>> I know for a fact that Boeing uses Ada 83 on the F/A-22 (fighter
>> jet of the future).
>
> 	That's interesting, as the F/A-22 is a Lockheed Martin
> development...
>
> (also interesting -- I missed the announcement of the designator
> change from fighter to fighter/attack)

The Raptor has always been officially designated F/A-22, I think. It
was always conceived in a joint interdictor and ground support role.
Nevertheless, the forms "F22", "F-22", "F 22" and so on also seem to
be commonly used (odd, really).

Boeing developed a complete prototype for the competition with
Lockheed Martin for the Raptor contract. Of course, Lockheed Martin
won, but I believe Boeing are involved in the manufacturing
programme.

 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.

-- 
Nick Roberts