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From: bill@leeweyr.sccsi.com (Bill Lee)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/22
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references: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4gaa6l$8mk@post.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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organization: Lee Aerie
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Date: 1996-02-22T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <4gd94r$isu@mack.rt66.com> egf@Rt66.com (Ed Franks) writes:
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>Yes, but you are not. Meanwhile, the software for the Mission Control Center 
>(MOC) at NASA Johnson Space Center is being rewritten in C++, not ADA.
>

Wrong. C, not C++. And serious, grievous error whichever. Software
which has life-threatening consequences should not be written in
an intrinsically unsafe language.

It is not a good day to be an astronaut.

Regards,


Bill Lee