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| | An Ada Info Article-- The Boeing 777 Flies on 99.9% Ada |
 | | In fact, the Sundstrand power systems' 80,000 lines of code were in themselves reused by 10 to 15 percent. |
 | | It was unique among aviation systems for integrating the other computers' functions; in other systems, each function resides in a different box [the central maintenance had its own box with its own input/output (I/O), its own central processing unit (CPU), etc.]. |
 | | The systems in the cockpit talk to the other systems through the programming language, and in new airplanes, such as the Beechcraft 400A, the Learjet series, and some English jets, the language of choice is Ada. |
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