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- From: egf@Rt66.com (Ed Franks)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 96 23:09:48 GMT
- Organization: Engineering International, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4gqq9e$m3d@mack.rt66.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4gaa6l$8mk@post.gsfc.nasa.gov> <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com> <1996Feb22.005518.13396@leeweyr.sccsi.com>
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- In article <1996Feb22.005518.13396@leeweyr.sccsi.com>,
- bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee) wrote:
- >In article <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com> egf@Rt66.com (Ed Franks) writes:
- > .
- > .
- >>
- >>Yes, but you are not. Meanwhile, the software for the Mission Control Center
- >>(MOC) at NASA Johnson Space Center is being rewritten in C++, not ADA.
- >>
- >
- >Wrong. C, not C++. And serious, grievous error whichever. Software
- >which has life-threatening consequences should not be written in
- >an intrinsically unsafe language.
-
- The language being used to rewrite the MOC software at JSC is C++, not C.
- The language selection was made back in 1993. The selection came down to
- either C++ or ADA with a dialect/preproccesor called Dragoon. The rationale
- for selecting C++ is all documented in a report to NASA by the
- ROSE (Reusable Objects Software Environment) project.
- Last time I checked, there were 80+ developers and
- support staff from Rockwell, UNISYS, Loral, Barrios,and NASA
- working on getting a legacy body of software
- ( >2.5 million SLOC) rehosted to C++ on a network of CDC/DEC/Sun workstations.
- I was a member of ROSE until May 1995.
-
- >
- >It is not a good day to be an astronaut.
- >
- >Regards,
- >
- >
- >Bill Lee
- >
-
-
- Ed Franks
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