From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 22 Sep 92 17:08:02 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.co m!mksol!mccall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Using Global Variables Message-ID: <1992Sep22.170802.23315@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In <1992Sep22.121955.24424@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes : >In article <1992Sep21.205841.9148@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> walls@saifr00.c fsat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls) writes: >>not in real-time embedded applications where every upgrade >>requires more and more functionality on the exact same hardware >>the original program was written for years ago. this is known >>as "the real world." >No, that is not the real world. It is an artificial world created by >an insane contracting and procurement system that has been designed to >do everything except solve the real problem, and do it as expensively >as possible. Well, it's that 'artificial world' that created and sustains Ada. So, what does that say to you? -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.