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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ESP
Date: 1996/12/15
Date: 1996-12-15T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Dec14.191445.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.3.95.961214131401.15507A-100000@nunic.nu.edu


In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.961214131401.15507A-100000@nunic.nu.edu>, Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> writes:

>   You may recall that there was a contibutor to the thread on the
>   Ariane incident who kept insisting that everything would have been
>   just fine if the software had been programmed in PL/I instead of
>   Ada.  And in those PL/I posts that contibutor made recurring 
>   references to audit trails and printed reports.  As you and I know,
>   embedded space systems rarely have any attached printers.

If someone had included a printer on the Ariane :-),
would it have been intact after the incident ?

Larry Kilgallen




  reply	other threads:[~1996-12-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-09  0:00 ESP Ken Garlington
1996-12-14  0:00 ` ESP Richard Riehle
1996-12-15  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-12-17  0:00     ` ESP Andrew Lynch
1996-12-15  0:00   ` ESP Eric Miller
1996-12-17  0:00 ` ESP Ken Garlington
1996-12-17  0:00 ` ESP Robert I. Eachus
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