On Jan 13, 11:51 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > > At GE there was no encapsulation in sight on any system I worked on. > > In fact, our engine simulation was a special-purpose object-oriented > > language with--get this--no private variables. Some other systems I > > worked on didn't even use scoping, let alone encapsulation. > > Where my officemate used to work, the simulation stuff was written in > Matlab, but the actual flight stuff was written in Ada. I wonder > if GE did something similar.
I was going to suggest the same thing. An engine *simulation* is one thing; the actual engine control code is another. And the interface between the engine control code and the rest of the flight software is yet another. The FMS should be setting the throttle level, but I doubt it should be fooling around with the guts of the engine control software. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
