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Guidance systems are usually written in C or assembly (Speed of execution is critical, so OO languages are not used), but in several cases the (very) extensive documentation is written in XML. Frank Boumphrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rod Davison" <rdavison@s...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: XML under JDK 1.0 and spacecraft > On Monday 16 July 2001 07:13 pm, Thomas B. Passin wrote: > > [Bruce Altner] > > > > > There ought to be some old version of Aelfred still around that would do > > it. I'll bet a lot of people could lay their hands on one if you can't find > > a site with it. It might be a good choice anyway, if you are constrained > > to JDK 1.0 because it's on some spacecraft - Aelfred is very small. > > > > Just as an eclectic followup, I taught a course in C++ for a company called > SpaceBridge which wrote code that went on spacecraft. halfway through the > course, tehprogrammers came to the conclusion that C++ was not the right > solution for them because of the problem with managing and prediting the > executable sizes was not worth any benefits they gained form the daditional > features of OO -- they went back to C. I love to hear the arguments made for > putting Java on a space craft. > > Since then, I have wondered if we ever will see zero gravity extensions to > XML. > > > ==================================================== > Rod Davison @ Critical Knowledge Systems Inc > rdavison@s... > ==================================================== > This message has been brought to you by the language C and the number F. > ==================================================== > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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