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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/02/25 Message-ID: <1996Feb25.144018.8984@ohstpy>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 141048047 references: <4etcmm$lpd@nova.dimensional.com> organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , tgm@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes: > Ted Dennison (dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com) wrote: > : Matthew M. Lih wrote: > : > My initial reaction to this piece of news is: Great. Another technical decision > : > from the same people who brought you frozen O-rings. > : > : Morton-Thyocol? > > For the record, it was NASA administrators who pushed for the > Challenger launch. The engineers and contractors were overruled in > their efforts to scrub the launch. > The NASA admins, of course, were pushed by the Whitehouse, who insisted on having the Challenger in orbit during Reagan's State of the Union Address, where the plan was to do a live interview with the Teacher-In-Space and the President during the address, all in the name of propoganda. -Garrett >