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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,873e3ac877e7b6b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-18 07:42:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:42:18 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030611 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors & Blackout References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1061217738.924576@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@aphelion.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1061217738 24105 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41683 Date: 2003-08-18T10:42:18-04:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > I believe that this would be considered a gross design error. > I suspect that it is software. But then why would a gross design error make you a believer in Ada? I could understand that if the C++ code was erroneous you would belive that using Ada would prevent those problems from occurring, but why would Ada prevent the board from applying 10 volts to a servo-amplifier at startup?