http://journal.thedacs.com/issue/53/158

"With the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter both C and C++ have been used in the safety
critical systems developed by the team of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Northrop
Grumman Aerospace, and BAE Systems. This is also true for the F-35 supplier team. Ada
was seen as the technically superior and more robust language, but concern over the
ability to successfully staff the software engineers required to develop the massive
amounts of safety critical software caused the F-35 team to carefully look and
finally to choose C and C++ for the implementation of safety critical software."

"Massive amounts" to nie przesada: "The total size of air vehicle software for the
F-35 will grow to approximately 19 million Source Lines of Code (SLOC) by 2011."
(moze w ADA byloby tych linii kodu mniej?)

Napelnia mnie to pewna filozoficzna zaduma, ze najpierw inzynierowie generuja
detaliczne specyfikacje "bezpiecznego jezyka programowania", projektuja dla Pentagonu
jezyk komputerowy spelniajacy te specyfikacje, urzednicy z DoD wpisuja ten jezyk we
wszystkie standardy, a potem... wzgledy "rynkowe" powoduja ze to wszystko idzie do
kosza. Ale pewnie zysk Lockheed-Martin byl wiekszy :)

RW