Python for air traffic control?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.994111084.403.python-list at python.org>,
William Park  <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> From: Russ (18k11tm001 at sneakemail.com)
>>
>> I am thinking about using Python for a unique safety-critical
>> application in air traffic control. It will monitor a few hundred
>> aircraft for conformance to assigned trajectories, and it will
>> initiate an automatic alarm (for both controller and pilot) if an
>> aircraft deviates from its assigned trajectory and is in danger of a
>> collision. (The trajectory and tracking data will come from existing
>> C/C++ programs.) The software must be as simple, clean, and robust as
>> humanly possible. The default languages here are C/C++, but I am
>> toying with the idea of using Python instead. However, I am a bit
>> nervous about the lack of type checking and function prototyping,
>> among other issues. Is Python up to this task? Thanks for your
>> insights.
>
>Of course, you idiot...  

Is there some reason you're calling Russ an idiot?  Let's try to keep
comp.lang.python flamefree, please.
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