From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?)
Date: 1996/08/27
Date: 1996-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3222E997.5EEC@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.BSI.3.95.960826153026.11075A-100000@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Ken,
>
> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Ken Garlington wrote:
>
> >
> > How's that list of real-time flight systems written in PL/I progressing?
> >
>
> It's not a flight system, of course (unless you count the times I've
> loaded up my P/390 box on an airliner and used it for work...:-)), but
> my company has been quite successful in using PL/I to develop and
> market a line of VM/ESA performance monitor analysis and reporting tools.
[snip]
>
> Does, this mean that PL/I is "better than" Ada, or C, or Fortran, or
> ....? No, of course not, it just means that when used in an appropreate
> manner in an environment it was designed for, it's a very good choice
> for a serious development language.
No argument there. I've used PL/I very successfully myself (although, oddly
enough, I never used PL/I while working at IBM!). However, real-time systems
such as you describe are very different than real-time embedded flight
systems. It is completely absurd to claim that someone, knowing PL/I (or
any language, for that matter) somehow is an expert in the real-time embedded
flight system environment. It is even more absurb to make such claims if the
language isn't routinely used in that environment. Of course, given the other
bizarre statements by ++robin (Ada is bad because it doesn't have exception
mechanisms, Ada is bad because someone once asked how to do a square root
operation, etc. etc.) I have to believe it's all a put-on on his part. Anything
for a laugh, eh?
--
LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"
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1996-07-25 0:00 Ariane 5 - not an exception? Simon Bluck
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Kirk Beitz
1996-07-26 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-08-06 0:00 ` U32872
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Pascal Martin @lone
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-10 0:00 ` dwnoon
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-15 0:00 ` dwnoon
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-20 0:00 ` dwnoon
1996-08-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-08-22 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Ada versus PL/I " Richard Riehle
1996-09-02 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1996-09-17 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Jay McFadyen
1996-09-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-09-20 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-09-03 0:00 ` J. Kanze
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-03 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-06 0:00 ` PL/I or PL/1 Larry Hazel
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) J.Worringen
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-14 0:00 ` David Alex Lamb
1996-09-14 0:00 ` Use DejaNews to retrieve Ariane discussion David Alex Lamb
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Earl H. Kinmonth
1996-08-11 0:00 ` Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) ++ robin
[not found] ` <4uibvh$References: <Dv45EJ.8r@fsa.bris.ac.uk>
1996-08-16 0:00 ` A. Grant
1996-08-08 0:00 ` bohn
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-26 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-23 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-26 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-30 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-30 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Sandy McPherson
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
1996-08-30 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-06 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-18 0:00 ` Merlin Dorfman
1996-09-20 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-30 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Ariane 5 - not an exception? Theodore E. Dennison
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-26 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-07-29 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Nigel Tzeng
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-31 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-08-02 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1996-07-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Greg Bond
1996-08-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-26 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Bill Angel
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Paul_Green
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Lloyd Fischer
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Bob Kurtz
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Richard Shetron
1996-07-30 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Nancy Mead
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1996-08-01 0:00 ` root
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-08-04 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-08-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Nigel Tzeng
1996-08-06 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-13 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Kirk Bradley
1996-08-14 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-18 0:00 ` PL/I Versus Ada (Was: Arianne ...) Richard Riehle
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Lon Amick
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Tim Dugan
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Tony Konashenok
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Lon D. Gowen, Ph.D.
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Tony Konashenok
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-08-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Lon D. Gowen, Ph.D.
1996-08-23 0:00 ` arbuckj
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Ariane 5 - not an exception? ++ robin
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-14 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Chris Papademetrious
1996-08-22 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1996-08-22 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-08-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-08-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1996-08-30 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Bob Gilbert
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-08-25 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Tom Speer
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-20 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Nigel Tzeng
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-08-01 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Mark van Walraven
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Pascal Martin @lone
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Dr. Richard Botting
1996-08-05 0:00 ` system
1996-08-06 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Darius Blasband
1996-08-10 0:00 ` dwnoon
1996-08-12 0:00 ` Thomas Kendelbacher
1996-08-13 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-13 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Roy Gardiner
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Francis Lipski
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1996-08-09 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1996-08-13 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-13 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Craig P. Beyers
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-08-02 0:00 ` James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Stefan 'Stetson' Skoglund
1996-08-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-27 0:00 ` Bill Angel
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Dr. Richard Botting
1996-07-30 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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