Python for air traffic control?

[Grant Edwards]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 17:52:45 -0400, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> From: Russ (18k11tm001 at sneakemail.com)
>> Subject: Python for air traffic control?
>> Date: 2001-06-29 17:42:45 PST
>>
>> I am thinking about using Python for a unique safety-critical
>> application in air traffic control. [...] Is Python up to this
>> task? Thanks for your insights.
>
>Of course, you idiot... 
[...]
>Am I missing something?

Yes apparently a couple things:

 1) Manners
 
 2) A basic understanding of the question being asked.

He's asking about the implications of using Python is a safety
critical system -- not about whether it can do arrays or
whatever it was you were talking about.

There are many considerations in safety critical systems that
have absolutely nothing to do with whether the language chosen
is capable of performing the required calculations.

For example: in a safety-critical system any sort of dynamic
memory allocation can be risky, and garbage collection can be
downright terrifying.

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