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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/13 Message-ID: <1997Apr13.150812.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 234563398 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5ijb0o$ajc@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> <334d3da5.14386594@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> <2senchydgk.fsf@hpodid2.eurocontrol.fr> <3359e813.340466234@news.pacificnet.net> <33508283.56DD@aonix.com> X-Nntp-Posting-User: KILGALLEN X-Trace: 860958501/12670 Organization: LJK Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <33508283.56DD@aonix.com>, Dave Wood writes: > Further, even where safety criticality is not at issue, we still want > our software to be highly reliable. Even for an ATM, spreadsheet, or > for that matter a game. We pay good money for these things or spend > good time working with them, and we want them to be highly reliable. And we pay good money to have the phone answered if the user of our software has a problem with the software. Such problems will always exist, but minimizing them is an important goal so resources can be spent in other areas. Larry Kilgallen