From: mdisea!mothost!schbbs!tigger!tannen@uunet.uu.net (David Tannen x8273)
Subject: Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada
Date: 3 Jun 93 18:23:06 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jun3.182306.26158@schbbs.mot.com> (raw)
Greg,
This time I don't think this list of companies means that much to what the DoD
is
required to do. Do any of these companies build systems that need to be as fau
lt
tolerant as DoD systems? I doubt it. If there software fails, just reboot and
go on.
On one system I worked on, if it failed - bye bye WORLD. A serious possibility
in
the DoD world. It was critical that the system worked right every time.
I use Borland products at home because they are superior for DOS/MS-Windows com
pared
to anything available in Ada for the same platform. But I do not think I want
my
life to be decided by a C++ program and a pointer pointing to something in memo
ry
it was not suppose to be pointing to.
David Tannen
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1993-06-03 18:23 David Tannen x8273 [this message]
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1993-06-18 13:14 Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada Phil Thornley , BAe
1993-06-17 19:06 Jo Uhde, aka DrJo
1993-06-16 13:33 cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uvaarpa!murdoch!holme
1993-06-16 9:59 Ian Wild
1993-06-15 22:22 James Crigler
1993-06-15 15:48 agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!murdoch!holmes.acc.V
1993-06-12 15:14 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-11 4:03 David Emery
1993-06-10 1:40 news
1993-06-09 22:15 cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.
1993-06-07 23:05 Robert I. Eachus
1993-06-07 2:31 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-06 3:16 Michael Feldman
1993-06-05 21:40 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-05 20:56 John Bollenbacher
1993-06-05 15:14 cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!linus
1993-06-04 21:18 deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!dbased.nuo.dec.com!digits.enet.dec.com!brett
1993-06-04 17:10 agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!ymir.cs.umass.edu
1993-06-04 14:42 David Tannen x8273
1993-06-04 13:02 howland.reston.ans.net!agate!linus!linus.mitre.org!mwunix.mitre.org!m2358
1993-06-04 4:29 Gregory Aharonian
1993-06-04 0:45 Rod Cheshire
1993-06-03 19:15 dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.g
1993-06-03 15:48 Gregory Aharonian
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