Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Sep 2007 10:10 UTC, submitted by Jean-Marie Dautelle
For cost reasons the space agency is more and more interested in using Java for safety-critical missions. Until recently the lack of a time-predictable standard library has been a major hurdle to Java adoption in that particular field. It is no more the case as demonstrated by this AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) paper [.pdf] presented the first day of the Space 2007 conference (Long Beach, CA) and introducing the first fully time-deterministic (and open-source) library for Java: Javolution.
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2005-11-15
The main cost factor is not writing the code, it's testing and maintenance.
Ada comes much closer to writing program that are correct by design than Java, deterministic or not.
Sure you'd pay more for Ada code monkeys, but would get fewer bugs and thus reduced maintenance costs.
IOW I'd feel safer flying in a plane with control software written in Ada than in Java.
For software running webshop backends I'm not as picky.
Edited 2007-09-22 05:20