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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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 14:27:43 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!darwin.sura.net!udel!gvls1!oak!schrey From: schrey@oak.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Timothy M. Schreyer) Subject: Re: Quote for the Day Message-ID: <1993Mar18.221819.16340@VFL.Paramax.COM> Sender: schrey@oak (Timothy M. Schreyer) Nntp-Posting-Host: oak Reply-To: schrey@prc.unisys.com Organization: Paramax Systems References: <1993Mar18.185210.6284@VFL.Paramax.COM> <1993Mar18.211520.17097@scf.loral.com> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 22:18:19 GMT Date: 1993-03-18T22:18:19+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Timothy M. Schreyer schrey@vfl.paramax.com Software Technology R&D (215) 648-2475 Paramax Systems Corporation FAX: (215) 648-2288 PO Box 517, Paoli, PA 19301