On 5/15/06, Bill Puschmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The subscribe to a "german engineering" software philosophy which is
clean,
> > efficient, […]
> > By the way most mission critical code in medical and military
> > applications is still writeen in C.... I wonder why..???
>
It's called legacy code. I can point to a lot of mission critical and
military apps written in Ada and COBOL... and I doubt that makes them good
things :).
That and people know more about it and aren't making "beginner" mistakes.
Remember how horrendous JAVA was (and "is")... yet there are two rovers
running around on Mars programmed in Java. They were only supposed to last
a couple months...
Bullshit, the Java code is only on the client side on Earth, IIRC the
code in the rovers is C and maybe some ASM. And for the record, the
rovers have suffered various embarrassing software problems that were
close to making the mission a total failure, and that after years of
testing and debugging such a mission critical system that has cost
millions of $, it still crashes completely randomly. For details
bother to read the weekly updates at the NASA MER website.
Also well worth reading about programming at NASA:
http://www.flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html
uriel
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