From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7c5ef9815e469442 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-18 10:56:36 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!udel!gvls1!oak!schrey From: schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer) Subject: Re: Quote for the Day Message-ID: <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> Sender: schrey@oak (Timothy M. Schreyer) Nntp-Posting-Host: oak Reply-To: schrey@prc.unisys.com Organization: Paramax Systems References: Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 18:52:10 GMT Date: 1993-03-18T18:52:10+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. -- Timothy M. Schreyer schrey@vfl.paramax.com Software Technology R&D (215) 648-2475 Paramax Systems Corporation FAX: (215) 648-2288 PO Box 517, Paoli, PA 19301