Python for air traffic control?

[GerritM]

Safety is first of all a determined by the quality of the design and
secondly by the engineering skills of the developers. Most errors found
during the developement lifecycle have little relationship with type
checking or prototyping. Instead semantic errors and missing design aspects
(such as performance, exception handling, concurrency etcetera) are the
majority of errors.

The use of a clear and expressive language, such as Python, will help to
decrease this category of errors. However, keep in mind that the quality of
the architects and engineers is an absolute must for this type of
application!

Regards Gerrit

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> 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.