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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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Adrien Plisson wrote:
> Alberto wrote:
> > 6. I don't know what's the point with "aDA being used in avionics
or
> > rocket science". Planes and rockets are falling from the sky from
time
> > to time;
>
> Ada is also used in particular rockets called missiles, and its job
> inside is just to make them fall... but fall gracefully.
>
> --
> rien

Would that happen to include the now-infamous Patriot Missles (the ones
that couldn't hit a barn after they'd been on for a while due to a
bug?)

--T Beck