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Date: 3 Jun 93 18:23:06 GMT
From: mdisea!mothost!schbbs!tigger!tannen@uunet.uu.net  (David Tannen x8273)
Subject: Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada
Message-ID: <1993Jun3.182306.26158@schbbs.mot.com>
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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