Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request

From: Nick Roberts (nick.roberts_at_acm.org)
Date: 08/15/04

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    Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:26:25 +0100

    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
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