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From: "Matthew M. Lih" <lih@venice.sedd.trw.com>
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
Date: 1996/02/26
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vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu wrote:

> In article <tgmDnC3AM.MEv@netcom.com>, 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?

That's Morton Thiokol.

> > 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 administrators are who I meant. Sorry for the imprecision.

> 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.

Unless the White House was explicitly briefed on the risks involved, I would
say the responsibility still rests with the administrators to "just say no".

Just to provide some context, someone recently posted that much of the
software at Johnson Spaceflight Center (the ground-based stuff?) was being
rewritten in C++.


Matthew M. Lih
Software Lead, SAIN Project
TRW Enterprise Solutions