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=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 9 Jun 93 22:15:24 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland. reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.cs c.ti.com!mksol!mccall@ucbvax. (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada Message-ID: <1993Jun9.221524.16305@mksol.dseg.ti.com> List-Id: In 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. -- "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.