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From: Jerry on 3 Feb 2010 23:09 I have an engineer friend who is a long-time employee of Honeywell Flight Systems who claims that the Boeing 787 does not use Ada ("It's an old language"). My friend, as i recall, manages a project involving the airplane's entertainment system which he says uses C and C++ and not Ada. I don't doubt that his subsystem uses C but a bit of web research seems to indicate that the flight systems use Ada. Who is right--the web or my friend who works on the airplane?
From: Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) on 3 Feb 2010 23:19 On 4 fév, 05:09, Jerry <lancebo...(a)qwest.net> wrote: > I have an engineer friend who is a long-time employee of Honeywell > Flight Systems who claims that the Boeing 787 does not use Ada ("It's > an old language"). My friend, as i recall, manages a project involving > the airplane's entertainment system which he says uses C and C++ and > not Ada. I don't doubt that his subsystem uses C but a bit of web > research seems to indicate that the flight systems use Ada. Who is > right--the web or my friend who works on the airplane? it's an old language what about C and C++ ? he says uses C and C++
From: Jeffrey R. Carter on 3 Feb 2010 23:49 Jerry wrote: > I have an engineer friend who is a long-time employee of Honeywell > Flight Systems who claims that the Boeing 787 does not use Ada ("It's > an old language"). My friend, as i recall, manages a project involving > the airplane's entertainment system which he says uses C and C++ and > not Ada. I don't doubt that his subsystem uses C but a bit of web > research seems to indicate that the flight systems use Ada. Who is > right--the web or my friend who works on the airplane? "It's an old language" is an odd reason not to use a language from someone who uses C (much older than Ada) and C++ (about the same age as Ada). -- Jeff Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 07
From: Rick on 4 Feb 2010 03:22 I may be prejudiced but I would have thought that the only safe place in a plane to use C++ would be the entertainment system.
From: Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) on 4 Feb 2010 03:46
On 4 fév, 09:22, Rick <rickdu...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I may be prejudiced but I would have thought that the only safe place > in a plane to use C++ would be the entertainment system. I would have though entertainment systems were build up using HTML+CSS +JavaScript. To have for serious words : I know in france, some military systems were build using C++ (do not know if it's still the case, and I'm far from this peoples, so I could not know). |