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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin D. Quitt) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada ... NOT!! Date: 1996/07/08 Message-ID: <31e180c5.430136383@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 167263987 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rgqp7$iv6@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be> <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4rqtdk$nge@romeo.logica.co.uk> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: kdq@emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 8 Jul 1996 12:03:00 GMT, Hugh Dunne wrote: >If I'm sitting on a plane >controlled by a software fly-by-wire system, I want it to be solidly >engineered by competent developers who use all appropriate tools, not >"created" by software "wizards"! I agree, but being the latter doesn't preclude the former. There *is* too much art and not enough science in software. "'Computer Science' is to 'Science' as 'Plumbing' is to 'Hydrodynamics'". -- #include http://emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov/ _ Kevin D Quitt USA 91351-4454 96.37% of all statistics are made up Per the FCA, this email address may not be added to any commercial mail list