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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac9405996d0dcb7f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Would You Fly an Airplane with a Linux-Based Control System? References: <20619edc.0411251028.3e249bf3@posting.google.com> <20619edc.0411261258.7eb4a32b@posting.google.com> <1josae5ppsp2e$.11y9sfglefjrl.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <2v5qd.5032$NU3.4946@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:31:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.178 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1101587518 63.184.105.178 (Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:31:58 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:31:58 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6562 Date: 2004-11-27T20:31:58+00:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > Ok. I understand your concept of "bug" is stronger than mine. And the > general public's. I guess this story cannot be made short. Just make > sure you don't blame the hardware. Sorry if I wasted your time. I don't think anyone's trying to blame the HW. They're trying to make it clear that this problem would have arisen regardless of the language used to implement the SW. Just because C doesn't have exceptions doesn't mean it can ignore an interrupt from the HW. -- Jeff Carter "Many times we're given rhymes that are quite unsingable." Monty Python and the Holy Grail 57