Re: Quote for the Day

[schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer)]

In article <SRCTRAN.93Mar18114342@world.std.com>, srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
|> 
|> >"When Bell Labs were invited to evaluate C against the DoD
|> > requirements, they said that there was no chance of C meeting the
|> > [STEELMAN] requirements of readability, safety, etc, for which were
|> > were striving, and that it should not even be on the list of evaluated
|> > languages.  We recognized the truth in their observation and honored
|> > their request."
|> 
|>     What's the point?  Considering that ATT and Bell Laboratories then
|> went on to use C/C++ for the largest real-time C3I system on the planet,
|> their phone systems, what's that say about the [STEELMAN] requirements?
|> 
   Maybe if AT&T had used Ada for the project we wouldn't have had that
   bad pointer problem which took down American long distance for half
   a day a while back.

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