Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: typing and reusability (was: Re: blip) Message-ID: <8ACALA5@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991Mar26.005805.1914@kodak.kodak.com> <1991Mar27.040253.17343@leland.Stanford.EDU> <49194@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 15:33:09 GMT In article <49194@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: > Actually, I was under the impression that the space shuttle was programmed > in FORTH. No, but a number of embedded systems on sattelites *are* programmed in Forth. The choices available, given the hardware constraints, were Forth and raw assembly. The code for systems like this is generally desk-checked to the Nth degree. > I'm also under the impression that the software has never been the > cause of a serious (for some N) problem on the shuttle. Well, substantially delaying the first launch could be considered a serious problem... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"