Rosetta comet chaser made using BCB?

[Paul Breneman]

I don't see any forum section for such topics so I'll drop it here...   

On 26-Sep-2004 Kristofer Skaug wrote (links below to messages): "You want mission critical? Consider the infrastructure for the Rosetta comet chaser, that will need to stay operational until 2014-2015." and he wrote: "Yep, we make these things... using BCB for all the "on-the-bare-iron" programming tasks."

Interesting stuff to go back and read with things currently happening:
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/

***** below written on 5-May-2014 on fpc-pascal list *******

This sort of reminds me of my favorite threads (on exceptions) back in
2001.  The main point is that there are critical industrial uses of
Delphi where things are *much* different than the normal Windows
database app.  Here are two messages that are related:

http://codenewsfast.com/cnf/article/0/permalink.art-ng1253q88944

http://codenewsfast.com/cnf/article/0/permalink.art-ng53q201750

[Fred vS]

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,25412.msg154279.html#msg154279

 

[Paul Breneman]

http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ao/2004/03/02/36 mentions Delphi

[jwdietrich]

Both the Rosetta spacecraft and the lander module Philae contain several computers.

The main system is FORTH-based, which is also reflected by the hardware that uses a stack-based FORTH–oriented processor (see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234265387_Embedded_Computer_System_on_the_Rosetta_Spacecraft for details). Other subsystems have been developed with Ada, a language from the Pascal family that is especially suited for mission-critical aerospace applications and that is an established basis for real-time operating systems in space flight.

http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ao/2004/03/02/36 mentions Delphi

And, as we learned now, the ground test equipment software has been written in Delphi.

Altogether, Pascal seems to do a good job here...