From: westley@corsair.uucp (Terry J. Westley)
Subject: Re: C and assembler crashing the machine
Date: 19 Mar 90 18:39:05 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.183905.17393@planck.uucp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 90076.002500CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu
In article <90076.002500CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
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>I have used, do use, and will continue to use C. Just because some people
>have just recently discovered that "YES!, you CAN crash your machine with a C
>program!" is not enough to make ME stop using it.
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>Besides, I write some fairly useful software in C, and also in assembler. And
>I'm not going to stop writing in assembly language simply because "YES!, you
>can crash your machine with an assembly language program!", either.
>
Anyone who thinks that Ada prevents stupid mistakes or will prevent
crashing the machine or will make all code easy to read and understand
does not know Ada well.
The real question is: who should we let know about this? :-)
Terry J. Westley
Arvin/Calspan Advanced Technology Center
P.O. Box 400, Buffalo, NY 14225
acsu.buffalo.edu!planck!hercules!westley
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