Re: Quote for the Day

[bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave Bashford)]

In article <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> schrey@prc.unisys.com writes:
>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.
>
It would've been something else - Ada is not a cure-all !
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db
bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave Bashford, Sunnyvale, CA)