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 13:45:32 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!sgi!wdl1!scf16!bashford From: bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave Bashford) Subject: Re: Quote for the Day Message-ID: <1993Mar18.211520.17097@scf.loral.com> Sender: bashford@scf.loral.com (Dave Bashford) Organization: Loral Space & Range Systems References: <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 21:15:20 GMT Date: 1993-03-18T21:15:20+00:00 List-Id: In article <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> schrey@prc.unisys.com writes: >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. > It would've been something else - Ada is not a cure-all ! -- db bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave Bashford, Sunnyvale, CA)