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The Apollo Guidance computer wasn't anywhere near the scale and complexity of the F35 software. I'm also fairly certain the Apollo mission did not pick their te
by willtim 10y ago
The Apollo Guidance computer wasn't anywhere near the scale and complexity of the F35 software. I'm also fairly certain the Apollo mission did not pick their technologies based on "programmer availability".
- engi_nerd 10y agoI wish the source for "programmer availability" hadn't evaporated into the ether, because I'd love to see it. I wonder if it meant "The guys who know Ada are all furiously writing F-22 software" -- parenthetical aside, the F-22 was in flight testing and development during the same years that the F-35 project was getting underway, so there would have been high demand for people experienced with developing mission critical flight software -- "and therefore we have to go with the guys we can spare, who mostly know C++ or Java or something". Or did they mean "No one coming out of school knows Ada anymore so let's go with a more widely known language"?