FYI. Some good Ada press from this April. ------------------------------------------------------------ Martin C. Carlisle, PhD Associate Professor and Advisor-in-Charge Department of Computer Science United States Air Force Academy -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 1:36 PM To: DFCS_All Subject: Article on the Boeing 777 with some interesting stats http://www.pcquest.com/content/topstories/103040301.asp <http://www.pcquest.com/content/topstories/103040301.asp> Produced starting in 1995 First jetliner to be completely digitally designed 10,000 people in 238 build teams contributed to the design and its testing Most of the code was written in Ada When the first plane was finally assembled the parts fitting error margin was 0.23 inches as compared to 0,5 inches when design was done with mockups.