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: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Theodore E. Dennison" Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/30 Message-ID: <31FE3F74.3F54BC7E@escmail.orl.mmc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171123275 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31EE19D1.6977@lfwc.lockheed.com> <31efe069.63062188@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4sopkp$dao@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> <31F613F3.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <01bb7bf9$b89a1740$96ee6fcf@timhome2> <4tiorn$r5b@rational.rational.com> <01bb7dd3$88e808a0$96ee6fcf@timhome2> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Information Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Date: 1996-07-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Tim Behrendsen wrote: > > You say that it is the language of choice when software failure is > liable to cause loss of life or a very large lawsuit. These > are very worthy attributes. Given that this is the case, why > isn't it being used more universally for non-mission critical > software? Well, to aswer what you are asking, it IS used more universally. (...than you appear to think it is). That's what "language of choice" means. -- T.E.D. | Work - mailto:dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com | | Home - mailto:dennison@iag.net | | URL - http://www.iag.net/~dennison |