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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE 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 17:00:25 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!wellerd From: wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller) Subject: Re: Quote for the Day Message-ID: <1993Mar18.195042.16302@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: Ada Joint Program Office References: <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> <1993Mar18.211520.17097@scf.loral.com> <1993Mar18.221819.16340@VFL.Paramax.COM> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 19:50:42 EST Date: 1993-03-18T19:50:42-05:00 List-Id: 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