TEAM-ADA Archives

Team Ada: Ada Programming Language Advocacy

TEAM-ADA@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG

Options: Use Classic View

Use Proportional Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:16:28 EST
text/plain (13 lines)
[log in to unmask] wrote:

>Some sort of automation controls the rail operations of the DC metro while
>an operator rides aboard the train to open the doors and announce the stops.
>However, the operators have been running the trains manually for the past
>few months as they have encountered several problems with the automatic
>system.  I believe that it comes from the mid-seventies, so it was long
>before Ada's time.

Considering that the mechanism seems to have "worn out", I presume the
problems are hardware rather than software, and thus Ada would not have
been even close to a magic bullet.

ATOM RSS1 RSS2