Python for air traffic control?

[Aahz Maruch]

[BTW, would you please attribute the quotes.  It makes conversation
difficult if we can't keep track of who said what.]

In article <9htjhb$ck4 at news1.gtech.com>,
Peter Milliken <peter.milliken at gtech.com> wrote:
>>>Aahz:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Suppose that the only language choices are between C/C++ and
>>>>Python, and that the real-time resolution requirement is on the
>>>>order of one second. Which would you choose and why?
>
>Sorry, won't answer because it is not a realistic situation i.e. the choice
>wouldn't be between C/C++ and Python :-).

We already have the information that applications in this domain are
written in C/C++, so your claim that it's an unrealistic situation
strikes me as specious at best.
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