Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada

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In <SANDY.93Jun4101033@beeker.cs.umass.edu> sandy@beeker.cs.umass.edu (Sandy Wi
se) writes:

>Remember the Northeast long-distance blackout? It was directly
>attributed to the semantics of 'break'.

Nonsense!  It was directly attributable to someone not knowing what
they were doing.  If you think using Ada is going to automatically
make programs error free, even when munged on by someone who doesn't
know the language, I don't think I want *my* life depending on what
you might produce!

Face it.  If people doing software know what they're doing, things
like that don't happen.  If you let someone who *doesn't* know what
they're doing mess with it, quite likely they will break it.  And the
language you use is *not* going to save you from that.

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