Re: Quote for the Day

[wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller)]

In article <1993Mar18.221819.16340@VFL.Paramax.COM> schrey@prc.unisys.com writes:
>In article <1993Mar18.211520.17097@scf.loral.com>, bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave Bashford) writes:
>|> In article <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> schrey@prc.unisys.com writes:
>|> >   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.
>|> >
>|> It would've been something else - Ada is not a cure-all !
>
>   I know it's not and I didn't say it was.  I've worked with Ada enough
>   to know some of its weaknesses.  One of its strengths, however, is
>   catching at compilation time bugs like the one that caused the phone
>   problem, constraint checking.
>
>        TIM
>-- 

Um, this was discussed many months ago on this newsgroup.  I believe 
the actual culprit was a misplaced "break;" statement (we're talking
5 ESS, right?).  I believe the net result of that discussion (no
pun intended :-) was that, although Ada would have caught that problem,
it could never be proven that Ada would have cured all it's ills (heck,
Ted Holden would claim that 5 ESS would never have been delivered! :-)

In general, I don't think this thread is contributory to Good Karma(tm),
so perhaps we should end it here.  Those that wish to continue should
read posts from a few months (years? time flies when you're having 
flames :-) ago.

dgw