[Filibuster_60]

The F-22 software is what you would call a "hard real-time system" - in which event-handling and deadlines are extremely stringent. Even apart from the fact that ADA's the main language, this is a far more complex system we're talking about than a Linux box. ADA incidentally is the language of choice on many troublesome DoD platforms - Osprey being another prime example.

[CasearianDaoist]

Gig you know that they are chucking ADA for C++ on the Future combat system?

[SkyPilot]

Is ADA similar to APL? APL was a language I took as a new engineering student back in the early 80's. It was quite different from FORTRAN (the other big language back then) in that it used symbols, but was considered "more powerful." In fact, the guy who wrote it (Dr. Walter...something) was my professor (an he was way old back then).

[chilepepper]

want to know why?

ADA was designed in FRANCE

(i kid you not!)