From: schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer)
Subject: Re: Quote for the Day
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 22:18:19 GMT
Date: 1993-03-18T22:18:19+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Mar18.221819.16340@VFL.Paramax.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1993Mar18.211520.17097@scf.loral.com
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
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1993-03-17 21:38 Quote for the Day David Emery
1993-03-18 16:43 ` enterpoop.mit.edu!Shiva.COM!world!srctran
1993-03-18 18:52 ` Timothy M. Schreyer
1993-03-18 21:15 ` Dave Bashford
1993-03-18 22:18 ` Timothy M. Schreyer [this message]
1993-03-19 0:50 ` David Weller
1993-03-19 8:29 ` Jim Lonjers
1993-03-18 20:18 ` David Emery
1993-03-19 15:07 ` Gregory Aharonian
1993-03-18 21:12 ` Greg Franks
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