Gm Programming

[Jemison Richard]

Interesting stuff.  Keep this one for future reference.  Ada is always used
in government jobs because the government standardized on it.  ADA is kind
of a blur of several 3gl languages.  People that have to use it like it.
Some people have just picked it up because they wanted to and find it solves
everything (that's what it was supposed to do!  I'm not completely buying
into that one).  The main thing is that it standardized coding for the
government). 

The fact that Modula-GM is used in GM - there should be literally a wealth
of information on this product through people in the GM organization.  Might
even be some documentation online somewhere. FWIW

Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	andy quaas [SMTP:realsquash at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 24, 1998 10:10 AM
> To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject:	RE: Gm Programming
> 
> Well i did a simple i-net search and came up with this little addition
> (in case this is garbage, the URL is
> http://gruffle.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/safety/lang-survey.html 
> 
> andy Q
> 
> Land Vehicles:
> -------------
> 
>  Bosch: Diesel engine controls in C. (Other systems generally in C?)
>  Delco: Engine controls and ABS in 68C series (Motorola) assembler.
>         C++ used for data acquisition in GM research center.
>         '93+ GM trucks vehicle controllers mostly in Modula-GM
>         (Modula-GM is a variant of Modula-2. A typical 32-bit 
>          integrated vehicle controller may control the engine, the
>          transmission, the ABS system, the Heating/AC system, as 
>          well as the associated integrated diagnostics and off-board 
>          communications systems.)
>    Ford: Assembler.
>  General Dynamic Land Systems: M1A2 tank tank software in Ada with
>         time-critical routines in 68xxx assembler.
>         Tank software simulators in C.
>  Honda: ?
>  Lucas: Many systems in Lucol (Lucas control language).
>         Diesel engine controls in C++.
>         ABS in 68xxx assembler.
>  SAE: ? (Despite considerable effort on my part, I was unable to 
>         gather any information on languages or language standards 
>         from the Society of Automotive Engineers.)
> 
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