Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 12/8/2017 2:31 PM, Cows are nice wrote:
“Windows for Submarines” is said to be powering these submarines because
“it was cheaper than the alternatives”
. ....
"Clippy says It looks like you are trying to shoot a torpedo do you need
help?"
....

I believe weapon systems as well as the nuclear reactors should be using
devices unrelated to desktop computing. The real reason should be there
are more Window$ programmers in the market and that universities and
vocational schools are also teaching more and more about Window$.

Linux and Unix engineers need special training courses. And there is no
Micro$oft Office for inux and Unix... yet. BUT, couldn't you just use
plain text or HTML documents?

There are some universities, where the students all
have Apple Macbooks. There's really no way to predict
what product they'll be using. On some others, they
have Chromebooks, and could be using web tools for
programming.

And you wouldn't have a very good CS degree, if you
weren't taught to adapt to whatever platform was
needed for the job.

Weapons systems are programmed in ADA, a language
nobody uses. This means, when you leave your university,
you're basically useless for this work :-) The language
is similar to Pascal in some ways (strict typing).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

"In the 1970s, the US Department of Defense (DoD) was
concerned by the number of different programming
languages being used for its embedded computer
system projects, many of which were obsolete or
hardware-dependent, and none of which supported
safe modular programming.

After many iterations beginning with an original
Straw man proposal the eventual programming language
was named Ada.

The total number of high-level programming languages
in use for such projects fell from over 450 in 1983
to 37 by 1996."

Paul