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- From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 06:21:02 -0600
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- References: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> <4gaa <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com> <4geaac$bh6@qualcomm.com>
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- In article <4geaac$bh6@qualcomm.com>,
- Nasser Abbasi <x!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!usenet> wrote:
- >In article <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com>, egf@Rt66.com (Ed Franks) says:
- >
- >>Meanwhile, the software for the Mission Control Center
- >>(MOC) at NASA Johnson Space Center is being rewritten in C++, not ADA.
- >
- >Can any one else confirm this? How large is this software project?
- >
-
- I can confirm it. In fact, I can also confirm that NASA/JSC is
- flocking as rapidly as possible to C++. WIth the exception of some
- flight software on the space station, and the space station simulator,
- you'd be hard-pressed to find Ada. In fact, rumor has it that
- NASA/JSC is pressuring the last "non-flight-software" Ada developers
- to "consider" switching to C/C++.
-
- Ada is indeed dead and unwell at JSC. YOu really need look no further
- than the "satellite" university, University of Houston at Clear
- Lake...a considerable amount of NASA-, and NASA-contractor-funded
- research work is in C++, despite UHCL once being one of, if not _the_,
- strongest supporter of Ada in the late 80's.
-
- And, just to keep the facts straight, Ada is NOT a "mandated" language
- within NASA. At one point in time, there was a policy that it was
- "preferred", but that policy is clearly moot.
-
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