From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,f096ebb5dcac664d X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ariane 5 Failure from 1996 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:38:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0055d56b-05db-4b20-9cfe-202cf4343fd8@o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247240280 6464 127.0.0.1 (10 Jul 2009 15:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6946 Date: 2009-07-10T08:38:00-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 10, 7:53=A0am, John McCabe wrote: > Dear All > > The other day, some geezer who was presenting to me claimed that > someone had carried out an analysis to show that, had the Ariane 5 > software been written in C, the first launch would have succeeded. > > Are any of you aware of this claim and have information to debunk > this? Microsoft Windows is written in C (or C++), I think. That should be good enough to debunk any such garbage. :) :) -- Adam